Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“She did what is the most dangerous thing anyone can do in politics; she discoursed without having the most remote acquaintance with… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged… — 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
