August Strindberg Quotes

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

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

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.

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.

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

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father

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