113 Quotes by August Strindberg

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

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

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

Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

Love between a man and woman is war.