113 Quotes by August Strindberg

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

Necessity knows no rules.

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

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

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.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.