August Strindberg Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by August Strindberg:

I dream, therefore I exist.
~August Strindberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#df5cd1c2

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.
~August Strindberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#849ff7ca

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#ee9f3f2e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#e4795b23

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
~August Strindberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#88275d00

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#cf793d77

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.
~August Strindberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#7c027d1d

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#bba7d951

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#670cecd6

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.
~August Strindberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#6f95b8ab

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
~August Strindberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/august-strindberg-quotes/#8502f88e

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