“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: “How should I live?” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
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
It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements… — 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
“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is… — 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
As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Just as an astronomer, alone in an observatory, watches night after night through a telescope the myriads of stars, their mysterious movements,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic… — 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
“that the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The herd instinct of the mob was not yet as offensively powerful in public life as it is today; freedom in what… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Being beautiful in itself, youth needs no transfiguration: in its abundance of strong life it is drawn to the tragic, and is… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“The most just death is that which is most willed. Our lives depend on the will of others, but death on ourselves… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Od onog ondašnjeg čovjeka ja sam se, i to upravo zbog onog doživljaja, potpuno odvojio, promatram ga sa strane, sasvim mirno i… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of… — 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
