August Strindberg

"I envy the animals; they leave no record of their sins."

"The more a man creates, the less he is obsessed with the material world."

"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing."

"In the relationship between man and woman, the cruelest deception is passion."

"The past is constantly with us; it shapes our present."

"To write is to expose one's innermost self."

"Everything I write contains a grain of truth in a pound of lies."

"A man should shed his illusions like a dog sheds his coat."

"The strong man is the one who can endure suffering."

"Faith is not knowledge but the hope of knowledge."

"Peace is a rare commodity, easily destroyed and hard to rebuild."

"I have seen life from both sides of the fence and I choose loneliness."

"The purpose of literature is to show us the depths of human nature."

"One cannot hate what one truly understands."

"The seed of sorrow lies within all joy."

"I am never more honest than when I am telling the truth through fiction."

"Jealousy is the greatest poison that can corrupt a relationship."

"The artist must live in a state of constant rebellion."

"Education is not filling buckets but lighting fires."

"The weak are destroyed by their own weakness."

"Every man is a genius for a few moments in his life."

"The most profound truths are often the simplest."

"A man's greatness is measured not by his wealth but by his conscience."

"Time is a river that carries us all away."

"The mind that opens to new ideas never closes back."

"I write because I cannot remain silent about the truth."

"Suffering ennobles the soul if it does not destroy it."

"The family is where our deepest wounds are inflicted and where they are healed."

"A man who has never doubted has never truly believed."

"Beauty without depth is merely decoration."