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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 10 total August Strindberg quotes in our collection. August Strindberg is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

August Strindberg

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

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

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

August Strindberg

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.

August Strindberg