“Nora: ¡Ay Torvald! En realidad no sé con certeza que es la religión”
3er Acto, última escena.)
Henrik Johan Ibsen /ˈhɛnɾɪk ˈjoːhɑn ˈɪpsən/ fue un dramaturgo y poeta noruego. Es considerado el más importante dramaturgo noruego y uno de los autores que más han influido en la dramaturgia moderna, padre del drama realista moderno y antecedente del teatro simbólico.
En su época, sus obras fueron consideradas escandalosas por una sociedad dominada por los valores victorianos, al cuestionar el modelo de familia y de sociedad dominantes. Sus obras no han perdido vigencia y es uno de los autores no contemporáneos más representados en la actualidad. Wikipedia

“Nora: ¡Ay Torvald! En realidad no sé con certeza que es la religión”
3er Acto, última escena.)
Fuente: Revista Nosotros, volumen 59. Publicado en 1928. p. 239.
“Un verdadero espíritu de rebeldía es aquel que busca la felicidad en esta vida.”
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
“Nora: Tengo otros deberes que no son menos sagrados… Mis deberes para conmigo misma.”
3er Acto, última escena.)
“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 The Master Builder
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)