August Strindberg Quotes

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. - August Strindberg

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

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. - August Strindberg

That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. - J August Strindberg

Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. - August Strindberg

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. - August Strindberg

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me. - August Strindberg

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him. - August Strindberg

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car. - August Strindberg

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