August Strindberg

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.

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

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

On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:_x000D_ _x000D_ Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.