August Strindberg
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.Collection: Pet
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.Collection: Friendship
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Happiness
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.Collection: Courage
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.
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
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.
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.
I dream, therefore I exist.
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.Collection: Travel
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.Collection: Inspirational
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.Collection: Levels
There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.Collection: Eye
Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.Collection: Silence
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.Collection: Memories
What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.Collection: People
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.Collection: Savages
I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.Collection: Happiness
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclassCollection: Order
Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!Collection: Life
if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get marriedCollection: Loneliness
Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.Collection: Nice
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.Collection: Dream
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.Collection: Beautiful
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.Collection: Family
Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.Collection: Blessing
Necessity knows no rules.Collection: Knows
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.Collection: Police
Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.Collection: Love
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.Collection: Punishment
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.Collection: Love
There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!Collection: Reality
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Mad
Some people seem to be born to suffer.Collection: People
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.Collection: Book
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!Collection: Speaks Out
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!Collection: Succeed
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.Collection: Evil
When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.Collection: Clothes
It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.Collection: Good Faith
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.Collection: Funny
Love between a man and woman is war.Collection: War
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.Collection: Reality
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.Collection: Powerful
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)Collection: Self