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John Gabriel Borkman QUOTES

John Gabriel Borkman QUOTES

1 " Nicht Mord. Nicht Diebstahl, Raub oder nächtlicher Einbruch – auch Meineid nicht. Denn das alles sind ja Dinge, die man meist Leuten antut, die man haßt oder die einem gleichgültig sind und einen nichts angehen. […] Das Infamste von allem – das ist, wenn der Freund das Vertrauen des Freundes missbraucht. "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

2 " Borkman: Dann haben wir uns gegenseitig etwas vorgemacht. Und uns selber haben wir vielleicht auch etwas vorgemacht – beide.
Foldal: Ja, John Gabriel, aber ist das denn nicht im Grunde das Wesen der Freundschaft?
Borkman (lächelt bitter): Doch, doch, lügen und betrügen – das ist Freundschaft. Da hast du recht. Diese Erfahrung habe ich schon einmal in meinem Leben gemacht. "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

3 " You are a murderer! You have committed the
one mortal sin!
You have killed the love-life in me. Do
you understand what that means? The Bible speaks of a mysterious
sin for which there is no forgiveness. I have never understood
what it could be; but now I understand. The great, unpardonable
sin is to murder the love-life in a human soul. "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

4 " Pity! Ha, ha! I have never known
pity, since you deserted me. I was incapable of feeling it. If
a poor starved child came into my kitchen, shivering, and crying,
and begging for a morsel of food, I let the servants look to it.
I never felt any desire to take the child to myself, to warm it
at my own hearth, to have the pleasure of seeing it eat and be
satisfied. And yet I was not like that when I was young; that I
remember clearly! It is you that have created an empty, barren
desert within me--and without me too! "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

5 " I have skulked up there and wasted eight precious years of my life! The very day I was set free, I should have gone forth into the world—out into the steel-hard, dreamless world of reality! I should have begun at the bottom and swung myself up to the heights anew—higher than ever before—in spite of all that lay between. "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

6 " Oh, we are all of us run over, sometime or other in life. The thing is to jump up again, and let no one see you are hurt. "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

7 " Frida. So after all, it is not for nothing that I was born a poet. For now she is going forth into the great wide world, that I once yearned so passionately to see. Little Frida sets out in a splendid covered sledge with silver bells on the harness—— "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

8 " You must not think, Mrs. Borkman, that I haven't said the same to him. I have laid my whole life before him. Again and again I have reminded him that I am seven years older than he—— "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman

9 " Å de kvinner, de forderver og forvansker livet for oss. Forkvakler hele vår skjebne, hele vår seiersgang. "

― Henrik Ibsen , John Gabriel Borkman