Henrik Ibsen on Life
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Henrik Ibsen, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Henrik Ibsen, entry #42088: "Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything."
Attributed to Henrik Ibsen, entry #77569: "You don't get nothing for nothing in this life."
5 Quotes by Henrik Ibsen on Life
"Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything."
"You don't get nothing for nothing in this life."
"The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The great secret of action and victory is to be capable of living your life without ideals. Such is the sum of the whole world's wisdom."
"Erring soul of man — if thou wast indeed forced to err, it shall surely be accounted to thee for good on that great day when the Mighty One shall descend in the clouds to judge the living dead and the dead who are yet alive!"
"I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately - the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the whole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood."