The Road to Damascus Quotes

“The further from one another, the nearer one can be.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy

“Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy

“For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the many little men hold the power, and the great only serve the little men. I've never met such proud people as the humble; I've never met an uneducated man who didn't believe himself in a position to criticise learning and to do without it.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus

“MOTHER. Is he mad, or a rascal?

LADY. He's neither. He's no ordinary man; and it's a pity I can tell him nothing he doesn't know already. That's why we don't speak much; but he's glad to have me near him; and so am I to be near him.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy

“tell me this: how was it you came to love me? LADY. I don't know; but I'll try to remember. (Pause.) Well, you had the masculine courage to be rude to a lady. In me you sought the companionship of a human being and not merely of a woman. That honoured me; and, I thought, you too.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus

“is this carnival, or ... reality?”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy

“THE MOTHER: You don’t ask much of life, do you?
THE LADY: Why should I? You don’t get what you ask for anyway.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy