August Strindberg

"Time is the fire in which we burn."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"Marriage is a good deal like a circus; there is not a singled thing going on all at the same time."

"I have been broken and mended more times than I can count."

"Hope is a dangerous thing. But it is our most important thing."

"The middle class is the worst class imaginable, neither good nor beautiful."

"People who are always cheerful have something to hide."

"Marriage is like a cage; one watches from outside wishing to get in, and one inside wishing to get out."

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

"At last I understand. The poor don't want our sympathy; they want our money."

"Respect for the law is the condition upon which our right to live together in society depends."

"Women are more interesting than men, but no less visionary than they are."

"I find my life is useful only when I am of service to others."

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

"The further we penetrate into nature's secrets, the more we understand that everything is miraculous."

"Art is not democracy. It is not for the people; it is by and for artists."

"In our time the most dangerous belief is that evil can be cured by laws."

"Life is a misery, but it is still better than death."

"I suffer from my nerves. But they make me creative."

"The proof of the worthlessness of our age lies in the fact that we have forgotten how to be happy."

"A great man is a synthetic personality which the creator has added to nature."

"I hate humanity. I want to see it destroyed utterly."

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

"Dream, so that you might have a purpose for living."

"The most agonizing suffering is the suffering that no one will believe in."

"Wealth is not happiness, but poverty is misery."

"Music is the bridge between the mind and the heart."

"Character is what remains after you have tried everything."

"I believe that we should educate the people first, and then give them freedom."

"The hour of the lover is the only one that counts for the lover."