Quotes by August Strindberg

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

“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, th...”

“Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs,senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by...”

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”

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

“He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for talking with them, no, no! Then he felt as though he were dealing with another species of human bein...”

“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.”

“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.”

“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.”

“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.”

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

“Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.”

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

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

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

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

“Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs,senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by...”

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

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

“I'd love to see the whole of your sex swimming in a sea of blood. The way I feel I could drink out of your skull. I could eat your heart roasted whole! You think I'm weak! My father will come home ...”