August Strindberg Quotes

I dream, therefore I exist.
August Strindberg

Dream, Exist, Therefore

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

Pet, Keep, Themselves

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

Courage, Fight, Themselves

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

Dad, Family, Enemy

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

Life, Character, Simple

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

Friendship, Society, Woman

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

Happiness, End, Cannot

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

Love, Hatred, Her

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

Life, Hard, Battle

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

Men, Expect, Sit

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

Nature, Person, Why

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Biography

Nationality: Swedish

Type: Dramatist

Born: January 22, 1849

Died: May 14, 1912

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