113 Quotes by August Strindberg

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

I dream, therefore I exist.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police

One gets more and more humble the longer one lives, and in the shadow of death many things look different.