August Strindberg Quotes

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

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.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

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

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.

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

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

Love between a man and woman is war.

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.

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.

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.

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!