People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
More Quotes from August Strindberg:
Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.August Strindberg
Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
August Strindberg
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
August Strindberg
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.''
August Strindberg
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
August Strindberg
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Joy & Excitement Quotes, Life Quotes, People QuotesBased on Keywords: clamoring
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb
I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.
Shia LaBeouf