Stefan Zweig Quotes

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible h...

And the child—your child—was born there in the midst of misery. It was a deadly place: strange, ever...

That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running...

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These ...

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years...

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, book...

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to b...

Arrived at an age when others had already long been married and had children and held important posi...

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that pers...

Homeward bound I suddenly noticed before me my own shadow as I had seen the shadow of the other war ...

Forget it all, I told myself, escape into your mind and your work, into the place where you are only...

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of ...

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly alway...

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

One can't have literary comprehension without real experience, mere grammatical knowledge of the wor...

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our liv...

He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear ...

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not ...

We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are d...

As everyone knows, it is a thousand times easier to reconstruct the facts of what happened at a cert...

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an elec...

For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the in...

A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being ...

What decides whether a man will become immortal, is not his character but his vitality. Nothing save...

We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappo...

...My husband made my dreams come true, and because he could do that I married him."Then he says sof...

But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again.""Yes" I said, "they come back, b...

But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no gr...

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among hum...

Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vi...

But there, war does not care for predetermination; it also destroys in fury that wich is immaterial,...

He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt...

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he ha...

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she ne...

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stre...

He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and i...

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties ...