Henrik Ibsen frasi celebri
“Gli spiriti della verità e della libertà sono i pilastri della società.”
Henrik Ibsen I pilastri della società
Lona Hessel: I pilastri della società, IV atto
da Casa di bambola
Casa di bambola
“Un uccello della foresta non ha bisogno di alcun riparo forzato.”
Henrik Ibsen Il costruttore Solness
Hilde: Il costruttore Solness, III atto
libro Brand. Poema drammatico in cinque atti
Frasi sulla vita di Henrik Ibsen
Nora: Atto III, p. 87
Casa di bambola
1959, p. 32
Gli spettri
1959, p. 21
Gli spettri
Origine: Helene Alvig
Henrik Ibsen Frasi e Citazioni
“Ho lanciato l'ultima felicità al vento per una vista più alta sulle cose.”
da Sulle alture, 1860
Origine: Citato in Scipio Slataper, Ibsen, G.C. Sansoni Editore, Firenze 1944.
“Il mio libro è poesia; e se non è, lo diverrà.”
da una lettera a Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, 9 dicembre 1867
da una lettera del 16 giugno 1880
Scipio Slataper
Atto I, p. 18
Casa di bambola
Atto III, p. 91
Casa di bambola
“L'uomo più forte del mondo è quello che è più solo.”
da Un nemico del popolo, ne I capolavori
Henrik Ibsen: Frasi in inglese
“An unromantic poem I mean to make
Of one who only lives for duty's sake.”
Henrik Ibsen Love's Comedy
Guldstad
Love's Comedy (1862)
Makrina, in Emperor and Galilean (1873), Final lines.
Henrik Ibsen When We Dead Awaken
Ulfhejm, in Act I
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
Dr. Rank, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.”
Torvald Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“To think it, wish it, even want it —
but do it! No, that I cannot understand.”
Peer Gynt, after he sees a boy cut off his finger to avoid serving in the army, Act III, Scene I
Peer Gynt (1867)
“Castles in the air — they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.”
Henrik Ibsen Il costruttore Solness
Hilda, Act III
The Master Builder (1892)
Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck
Ekdal, Act II
The Wild Duck (1884)
“Whether I pound or am being pounded,
all the same there will be moaning!”
Peer Gynt, declaring that no matter what he does, it is not what people want, Act I, Scene I
Peer Gynt (1867)
Henrik Ibsen Love's Comedy
Falk, Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)
“Forget that foreign word "ideals." We have that good old native word: "lies."”
Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
“When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.”
Henrik Ibsen When We Dead Awaken
Irene, in Act II
When We Dead Awaken (1899)
Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People
Dr. Stockmann, Act IV
An Enemy of the People (1882)
Act II
Hedda Gabler (1890)
“You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.”
Dr. Rank, Act III
A Doll's House (1879)
Act V
Brand (1866)
“What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.”
Dr. Rank, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“If you take the life lie from an average man, you take away his happiness as well.”
Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck
Relling, Act V
The Wild Duck (1884)
Henrik Ibsen The Wild Duck
Hjalmar, Act IV
The Wild Duck (1884)
Henrik Ibsen Emperor and Galilean
Emperor and Galilean (1873), as quoted by Lester B. Pearson in his address on accepting the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1957) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1957/pearson-acceptance.html
“There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.”
Torvald Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
As quoted in The Book of Poisonous Quotes (1993) edited by Colin Jarman, p. 232.
“I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
Letter to Georg Brandes (3 January 1882).
“The common people are nothing more than the raw material of which a People is made.”
Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of the People
Dr. Stockmann, Act IV
An Enemy of the People (1882)
“Really to sin you have to be serious about it.”
Button-Moulder, Act V, Scene VII
Peer Gynt (1867)
“The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end — if it would only end.”
Nora Helmer, Act III
A Doll's House (1879)
“I've the most extraordinary longing to say 'Bloody Hell!”
Nora Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
