"Ghosts" Quotes
A woman's past comes back to haunt her when family secrets are revealed during a visit from her son in this play by Henrik Ibsen.
plays | 256 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
A mother in the house and all is well.
The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.
What does a man want with a wife when he has all the world before him?
I am prepared for the worst.
The dead have never any power over the living.
I want to be able to love my mother with my whole soul.
I almost believe we are all ghosts, Pastor Manders. It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind.
To live is to war with trolls in heart and soul. To write is to sit in judgment on oneself.
The joy of life is looking forward to the next day.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
