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Henrik Ibsen quotes
12 quotes from 3 of Henrik Ibsen’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
A Doll’s House
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are—or, at all events, that I must try and become one.
— Nora · Act III
But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
— Helmer · Act III
It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
— Nora · Act III
I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me.
— Nora · Act III
Duties to myself.
— Nora · Act III
But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
— Nora · Act III
Yes—you see there are some people one loves best, and others whom one would almost always rather have as companions.
— Nora · Act II
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
— Nora · Act III
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
— Helmer · Act I
Because such an atmosphere of lies infects and poisons the whole life of a home. Each breath the children take in such a house is full of the germs of evil.
— Helmer · Act I
The Lady from the Sea
The terrible is that which repels and attracts.
— Ellida · Act IV
Rosmersholm
I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.
— Rosmer · Act II