One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar” — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“In the days when I was ambitious I worked out a very pretty little plan for conquering the whole earth and rearranging things as they ought to be; and when, in the end, everything became so good it almost began to be boring, then I was going to stuff my pockets with as much money as I could lay hands… — 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 Image
Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the… — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share
“Och vad är månskenet? Solsken i andra hand. Försvagat, förfalskat.” — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“Never will she be mine; never. I never brought a flush to her cheek, and it is not I who now have made it so chalk-white. And never will she slip across the street in the night, with anxiety in her heart and a letter to me. Life has passed me by. [..] I have got new curtains for my… — 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 Image
Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream. — Hjalmar Söderberg Copy Share Image
