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The Father QUOTES

The Father QUOTES

1 " Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs,
senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a woman? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? And if you poison us, do we not die? Why shouldn't a man complain, a soldier weep? Because it is unmanly? Why is it unmanly? "

― August Strindberg , The Father

2 " It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

3 " One gets more and more humble the longer one lives, and in the shadow of death many things look different. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

4 " Ah, what is then this earthly life, But grief, affliction and great strife? E’en when fairest it has seemed, Nought but pain it can be deemed. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

5 " The mother was your friend, you see, but the woman was your enemy, and love between the sexes is strife. Do not think that I gave myself; I did not give, but I took—what I wanted. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

6 " Because the child bound us together; but the link became a chain. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

7 " Ah woe is me, how sad a thing Is life within this vale of tears, Death’s angel triumphs like a king, And calls aloud to all the spheres— Vanity, all is vanity. Yes, "

― August Strindberg , The Father

8 " All that on earth hath life and breath To earth must fall before his spear, And sorrow, saved alone from death, Inscribes above the mighty bier. Vanity, all is vanity. Yes, "

― August Strindberg , The Father

9 " But unfortunately, I am a man, and there is nothing for me to do but, like a Roman, fold my arms across my breast and hold my breath till I die. DOCTOR. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

10 " Do you suppose that he would have spoken if he had been alive? And do you suppose that if any of the dead husbands came back they would be believed? "

― August Strindberg , The Father

11 " It appears from these letters that for some time past you have been arraying my old friends against me by spreading reports about my mental condition. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

12 " Now you have fulfilled your function as an unfortunately necessary father and breadwinner, you are not needed any longer and you must go. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

13 " This house is full of women who all want to have their say about my child. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

14 " My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my archenemy, because you never let up on me till I lay here lifeless. LAURA. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

15 " My child? A man has no children, it is only woman who has children, and therefore the future is hers when we die childless. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

16 " If the child is not mine I have no control over her and don’t want to have any, and that is precisely what you do want, isn’t it? But perhaps you want even more—to have power over the child, but still have me to support you. LAURA. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

17 " I do not believe in a hereafter; the child was my future life. That was my conception of immortality, and perhaps the only one that has any analogy in reality. If you take that away from me, you cut off my life. LAURA. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

18 " You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father "

― August Strindberg , The Father

19 " PASTOR. And because she is your wife she is the best of wives? No, my dear fellow, it is she who really wears on you most. CAPTAIN. "

― August Strindberg , The Father

20 " LAURA. There are some circumstances in a family which through honor and conscience one is forced to conceal from the whole world—— DOCTOR. "

― August Strindberg , The Father