August Strindberg Quotes

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.

I dream, therefore I exist.

I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

Necessity knows no rules.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.