August Strindberg

"There is no freedom without the freedom to fail."

"In a month or a year or a hundred years, we will all be dead; we will have disappeared utterly."

"Knowledge is dangerous when you don't know what you don't know."

"Patience is a bitter herb that bears sweet fruit."

"I have been wrong many times, but never thoughtlessly."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice, for her passion is the infinite."

"My passions have never been my shame, but always my pride."

"Fear is the only real curse. Everything else is just shadow."

"I cannot die without leaving a trace of my own existence."

"The greatest misery is the feeling of being useless."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"There is no such thing as chance; everything is fate."

"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should go and sit by the shore and feel the peace of nature."

"The imagination can reconcile us to things we cannot understand."

"To have power is not to use it, and that is the essence of self-control."

"I am not insane, I am passionate."

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain sentence."

"My life is a series of interrupted sequences."

"I want to be of use to the world and to mankind."

"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."

"Every man is either a poet or a coward."

"I have had the experience of being despised for my opinions, and I have also had the experience of deserving it."

"The basis of all reform is to make men virtuous, and the basis of all virtue is education."

"I am incapable of friendship as I understand it, but I am capable of loyalty."

"To be happy is to be miserable less often."

"Art and science seek truth but differ in their methods."

"One cannot be generous and vengeful at the same time."

"The human race is never satisfied with its food, never content with its clothes, never pleased with its houses."