The strongest men are the most alone.

— Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

— Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

— Henrik Ibsen

To live is to war with trolls.

— Henrik Ibsen

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

— Henrik Ibsen

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

— Henrik Ibsen

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!

— Henrik Ibsen

We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spouting about "the child too early torn from her father's heart;" then you'll see him steep himself in a syrup of sentiment and self-admiration and self-pity. Just you wait!

— Henrik Ibsen

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

— Henrik Ibsen

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

— Henrik Ibsen