Stefan Zweig Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig Famous Quotes & Sayings
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All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
The great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be.
One goes wherever one is still admitted. Someone told me that I might be able to get a visa for Haiti or San Domingo here.
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor.
Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our very existence and survival were at stake.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart.
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.
All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
ever since he discovered that all his millions could not bring him back his wife, he has learned to despise money.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Nationalism is the sworn enemy of civilization, whether past, present or future, its malodorous presence thwarting the development of intelligence,
For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.
But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby.