August Strindberg

"The greatest adventure is the exploration of the human psyche."

"I prefer my solitude to false companionship."

"Every work of art is a confession."

"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."

"Mortality teaches us the value of time."

"A writer must be willing to sacrifice everything for his truth."

"The struggle is the essence of life."

"In every love story, there is a grain of hatred."

"The laws of society are written by the powerful for the weak."

"I have learned that the only constant is change."

"A man's character is his destiny."

"The most important battle is the one fought within oneself."

"Culture is the weapon of the enlightened against the ignorant."

"To be alone is not to be lonely."

"The greatest lies are often told with the best intentions."

"Every artist is a prisoner of his own vision."

"Life demands that we become more than we thought possible."

"The more we learn about the world, and the deeper we search into the nature of things, the more we realize that behind all visible phenomena there is a single unity."

"Marriage is the beginning and the end of all relations, and marriage may be something quite inferior to friendship."

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't the guts to bite people themselves."

"Writing is my way of speaking without being interrupted."

"One can never be too careful in the selection of one's enemies."

"The basis of all true nobility is goodness, and all nobility without goodness is nothing."

"My life has been a series of experiments in living, each more authentic than the last."

"In solitude we are least alone; we are closer to ourselves and to the infinite."

"The artist must be like a shark, always moving forward or he will perish."

"Suffering is the price we pay for consciousness."

"I have learned that the hard way - through pain and disappointment - that life is not what we imagine it to be."

"A man cannot be forced to be happy against his will, for happiness is a state of mind."

"The only way to deal with the past is to acknowledge it and learn from it."