Swedish Author Quotes

Selma Lagerlöf

August Strindberg

Harry Martinson

Peter Weiss

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Esaias Tegnér

Camilla Läckberg

Basically, what I believe in is neither capitalism nor globalization... I believe in man's capacity for achieving great things and in the combined force resulting from encounters and exchanges. I plead for greater liberty and a more open world... because it provides a setting which liberates individuals and their creativity as no other system can. It spurs the dynamism which has led to human, economic, scientific, and technical advances, and which will continue to do so. Believing in capitalism does not mean believing in growth, the economy, or efficiency. Desirable as these may be, these are only the results. Belief in capitalism is, fundamentally, belief in mankind.

You truly are an extraordinary man, Mr Sandeen. Nobody I know counts weeks. That is absolutely marvelous.

Marjaneh Bakhtiari

Those who deny the change in consciousness that the divine process of creation now brings about-or actually imposes on us-and fail to develop their intuition accordingly will sooner or later find themselves at a dead end.

Carl Johan Calleman

Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

Selma Lagerlöf

Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

Camilla Läckberg

Woe to the man who tries to stretch the imagination of man He shall be mocked he shall be scourged by the blinkered guardians of morality.

Two times two — is two!, Yes! I shall prove it by means of analogy, the highest form of proof. Follow carefully. One times one is one, therefore two times two is two. What applies to one applies to the other.

August Strindberg

The noble Nazarene... who raged against "the world," against the philistinism, the halfheartedness, the lack of ideals—if he had guessed that he was forging a weapon for the hands of exactly "this world"—he who sensed the misfortune of humanity so deeply that he didn't find any other solution to its enigma than to entirely reject and turn his back on all that is earthly, would see his name dragged into the service of an intense philistine optimism.

Vilhelm Ekelund

It whispers; all is waiting here
Kept safe for thee, year after year,
Beautiful songs in thousands;
Where hast thou been, where, where?

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Hener was the hero-king,
Heaven-born, dear to us,
Showing his shield
A shelter for peace.

Who really respects the earthworm, the farm worker far under the grass in the soil.

Harry Martinson