August Strindberg
When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!Collection: People
I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.Collection: Becoming
It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.Collection: Eye
It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Husband
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.Collection: Ideas
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.Collection: Real
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!Collection: People
In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.Collection: Moving
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soulCollection: Book
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.Collection: Children