Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?

— Henrik Ibsen

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

— Henrik Ibsen

NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing but a nursery. Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And my children were, in their turn, my dolls. I was exceedingly delighted when you played with me, just as children were whenever I played with them. That has been our marriage, Torvald.

— Henrik Ibsen

NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house.

— Henrik Ibsen

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

— Henrik Ibsen

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

— Henrik Ibsen

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

— Henrik Ibsen

People so easily forget their past selves.

— Henrik Ibsen

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

— Henrik Ibsen

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather

— Henrik Ibsen