From Henrik Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken:
Irine: "When we dead awaken."
Professor Rubek: [Shakes his head mournfully.] "What do we really see then?"
Irine: "We see that we have never lived."--Act II
Russian artist and stage designer Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin (1863-1930) designed many of the sets for controversial Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's plays as well as for the classic mythological tale of Orpheus and Euridice: