Henrik Ibsen Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Country, Father

  "Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen".

• Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Women, Believe

  Henrik Ibsen (1911). “The Works of Henrik Ibsen: Emperor and Galilean; a world-historic drama. A doll's house. Ghosts”

• It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Father, Ideas

  Henrik Ibsen (1904). “Ghosts: An Enemy of the People : The Wild Duck”

• I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Ghosts act 2 (1881)

• Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Gone, Deceitful

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “A Doll's House: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi

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