“There are people who have no talent for happiness and who know this with painful, implacable clarity. Such people don’t seek happiness, merely to bring some sort of form and style to their unhappiness.” — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar” — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“Grădinarului i s-a spus că doar iarba va creşte pe mormântul meu, iar primăvara voi avea anemone. O să vii odată o să culegi… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering.… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“Never will she be mine; never. I never brought a flush to her cheek, and it is not I who now have made it… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“Thought is an acid, eating us away. At first we imagine it will only eat into that which is rotten and sick and must… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“There are people who have no talent for happiness and who know this with painful, implacable clarity. Such people don’t seek happiness, merely to… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“Let me tell you something: there are three sorts of people - thinkers, scribblers, and cattle. It is true, I secretly count almost all… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment.… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
