Franz Werfel Quotes

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.