Top 67 August Strindberg Quotes
#1. I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
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#2. 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.
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#3. The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
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#4. Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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#5. There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
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#6. It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
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#7. Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
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#8. Every moment of enjoyment
Brings to some one else a sorrow,
But your sorrow gladdens no one,
For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs.
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#9. In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
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#11. When aristocrats pretend they're common people
they get common!
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#12. LAURA. Yes! It's strange, but I've never been able to look at a man without feeling I'm his superior. CAPTAIN
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#13. 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)
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#14. 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.
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#15. I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
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#18. What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
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#22. You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
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#23. I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
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#24. People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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#25. I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
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#26. 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.
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#27. We are already in Hell. It is the earth itself that is Hell, the prison constructed for us by an intelligence superior to our own, in which I could not take a step without injuring the happiness of others, and in which my fellow creatures could not enjoy their own happiness without causing me pain.
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#28. What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
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#29. I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
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#30. That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
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#32. Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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#33. The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
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#35. 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.
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#36. I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
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#38. God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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#39. Speaking at last becomes a vice, like
drinking. And why speak, if words do not cloak thoughts ?
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#40. Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
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#41. LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER
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#42. As soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
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#43. And why does man weep when he is sad? I asked at last - Because the glass in the eyes must be washed now and then, so that we can see clearly, said the child.
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#44. PASTOR. Violence aside now, admit that he suffers from fixed ideas. DOCTOR. I think your ideas are even more fixed, pastor! PASTOR
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#47. Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
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#48. When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
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#51. A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
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#52. - He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE
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#53. By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
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#55. When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men?
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#56. I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs
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#57. [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
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#59. Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.
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#60. You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.
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#61. Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
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#64. 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.
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#65. Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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#67. 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.
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