113 Quotes by August Strindberg

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

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

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

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

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.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.