August Strindberg

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which man is most likely to be unhappy."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"People want to hear songs about people they know, things they understand."

"Writing is my way of adjusting my life to the world around me."

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian."

"Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat."

"Sleep, those little slices of death—how I loathe them."

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure."

"The greatest beauty is not found in a woman's face, but in her character."

"Keep a watch over yourself; for as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

"Work is a curse. But I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a blessing."

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing occurs without a cause."

"I have been poor and I have been rich. Rich is better."

"The history of the world is the history of the few; not of the many."

"Liberty is the right to everything one is permitted to do."

"Truth is an island in the sea of confused events and people."

"Patience is not passive; on the contrary it is active; it is concentrated strength."

"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and need not be feared."

"The only remedy for conjugal misfortune is to take another wife."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"All change is loss as well as gain."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter."

"Time is man's greatest enemy."