113 Quotes by August Strindberg

I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs.

When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men?

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

For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the many little men hold the power, and the great only serve the little men. I’ve never met such proud people as the humble; I’ve never met an uneducated man who didn’t believe himself in a position to criticise learning and to do without it.

My child? A man has no children, it is only woman who has children, and therefore the future is hers when we die childless.

When aristocrats pretend they’re common people – they get common!

This house is full of women who all want to have their say about my child.

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family – the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another’s.