August Strindberg

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Life is a dream, and dreams are reality.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The stage is a world of lies, but the truth emerges from them.

Freedom is the right to be wrong.

Love is a game that two can play and both lose.

Science is the devil's broom.

The soul is a battlefield.

Wit is the salt of conversation.

The artist must be a revolutionary.

Truth is like the sun; you can shut it out for a time, but it shines.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Theater is the mirror of the soul.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – in the family too.

Loneliness is the price of genius.

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.

In the theater, we dissect the human heart.

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

Life's greatest tragedy is not death, but the fear of it.