113 Quotes by August Strindberg

Do you suppose that he would have spoken if he had been alive? And do you suppose that if any of the dead husbands came back they would be believed?

Ah, what is then this earthly life, But grief, affliction and great strife? E’en when fairest it has seemed, Nought but pain it can be deemed.

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it’s like water that’s stagnant and starts to rot!

I’ve thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire – it can’t burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

It’s wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven’t the true faith.

It’s risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

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