Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906)
Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama.
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.
An unromantic poem I mean to make
Of one who only lives for duty's sake.
I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
There are three Empires. First there is the Empire which was founded on the tree of knowledge. Then there is the Empire founded on the tree of the Cross. The third is still a secret Empire which will be founded on the tree of knowledge and the tree of the Cross — brought together.
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
God bless thee, bride of my life's dawn, Where'er I be, to nobler deed thou'lt wake me.