Quotes from August Strindberg

LAURA. Suppose that I was prepared to bear anything, even to being despised and driven out, everything for the sake of being able to keep and control my child, and that I am truthful now when I declare that Bertha is my child, but not yours. Suppose—— CAPTAIN.

Das hindert nicht, daß mich ein Band Buddhaismus stärker als all die übrigen heiligen Bücher beeinflußt

LAURA. Oh, we women are really too clever. CAPTAIN.

LAURA. Yes, it's queer, but I have never looked at a man without knowing myself to be his superior. CAPTAIN.

Genom att försöka göra det omöjliga når man högsta graden av det möjliga.

CAPTAIN. America? That's a pretty dreadful place, isn't it? Nothing but rednecks! KURT [gloomily]. Well, it's not Copenhagen. ALICE

Oh, it is sweet to sleep against a woman's breast, a mother's, or a mistress's, but the mother's is sweetest. LAURA.

a man must take his children on trust—isn't that what Goethe says?* CAPTAIN

Forse è un destino assumere su di noi le altrui sofferenze, e che, in più, ciò accada proprio quando in solitudine si cerca di sottrarsene.»

Questa è infine la solitudine: avvolgersi nella seta dell'anima, farsi crisalide e attendere la metamorfosi, che non può mancare. Si vive intanto delle proprie esperienze e, telepaticamente, si vive la vita altrui.»

L'abitudine a commutare il vissuto in poesia apre una valvola di sicurezza per eccesso d'impressioni e rimpiazza il bisogno di parlare.»

Nije imao krvi u žilama, nije imao osje?aja, volje, požuda. Bio je glava koja govori. Njegovo stajalište nije bilo nijedno, bila su sva. Bio je preparat, složen od knjiga; bio je tipi?ni knjiški u?enjak, koji nikad nije - živio.

Men så uppdök minnet om gamla fäderneförmaningar och råd, och då framkom den gamla lögnen, att allt arbete är lika aktningsvärt och förehöll honom hans högmod, och så tog han sitt förnuft till fånga och gick hem för att skriva 48 verktum Ulrika Eleonora.

Falk kunde som vanligt, och vilket var hans olycka, icke förrän efteråt finna passande svar på tal […]

Han tände en cigarr och ställde sig att betrakta porträttet. Den som observerat hans ansikte nu, skulle icke kunna se hans tankar, ty han hade redan lärt sig så mycket om livets konst att han icke en gång anförtrodde ensamheten sina meningar, ja, han fruktade till och med att meddela sig med sig själv.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.

Growing old - it's not nice, but it's interesting.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Love between a man and woman is war.