Quotes of Johan August Strindberg

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In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

- Johan August Strindberg

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“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ It is time to stop a young woman from being manipulated to break her ass and tear herself down to the core in order to build a man up. Once she builds him up, more than half the time he leaves her to figure out the millionpiece puzzle of life. Wow! It never amazes me how men forget who was there for them when they didn’t have a damn thing to their name. It’s a timeout for that! ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire