“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He has the sense that up to this moment his life has been a sham; he yearns to live properly, to reflect… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“For him books are not like men, who impose themselves and burden him with their chatter, and of whom it is hard… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Madness,” he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. “Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again!” War once again, war that had so… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
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… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“And if I am asked today to advise a young writer who has not yet made up his mind what way to go, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments… It is always only danger which forces… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing;… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“The truths that he finds may in the coming months or even the coming years be truths no more. He must be forever searching.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
