Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.

- Hjalmar Söderberg

We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

- Hjalmar Söderberg

Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.

- Hjalmar Söderberg

People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The s…

- Hjalmar Söderberg

Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

- Hjalmar Söderberg

One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emoti…

- Hjalmar Söderberg