Stefan Zweig

“Beware of pity.”

— Stefan Zweig

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

— Stefan Zweig

“To be free of family and familiar surroundings.”

— Stefan Zweig

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

— Stefan Zweig

“Books are my kingdom. And here I seek to reign as absolute lord.”

— Stefan Zweig

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

— Stefan Zweig

Happy people are poor psychologists.

— Stefan Zweig

“El que hace una concesión no puede ya detenerse.”

— Stefan Zweig

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

— Stefan Zweig

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

— Stefan Zweig

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

— Stefan Zweig

“Que a la larga no se puede defender la libertad de las masas, sino únicamente la propia, la libertad interior.”

— Stefan Zweig

“Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.”

— Stefan Zweig

“his jest implies: “Anybody who wants to be a real musician must be able to set even a menu to music.”

— Stefan Zweig

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

— Stefan Zweig

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

— Stefan Zweig

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

— Stefan Zweig

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

— Stefan Zweig

“He has the sense that up to this moment his life has been a sham; he yearns to live properly, to reflect…

— Stefan Zweig

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the…

— Stefan Zweig

“The strikingly broad, almost athletically powerful shoulders unfortunately reflected the character of his playing too, for this Mr. McConnor was one of…

— Stefan Zweig

It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements…

— Stefan Zweig

“Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the…

— Stefan Zweig

Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs,…

— Stefan Zweig

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization…

— Stefan Zweig

“Persistently trying to hoodwink one another, the Emperor, the kings, the princes, and the revolutionaries created an atmosphere of general distrust (like…

— Stefan Zweig

“The natural elements of sunlight, water and air were not permitted to touch a woman’s bare skin. At the seaside, women made…

— Stefan Zweig

He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the…

— Stefan Zweig

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves…

— Stefan Zweig

“We who have been hunted through the rapids of life, torn from our former roots, always driven to the end and obliged…

— Stefan Zweig

“He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now…

— Stefan Zweig

As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit…

— Stefan Zweig

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

“Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır.”

— Stefan Zweig

Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

— Stefan Zweig

“For tradition also and always means inhibition.”

— Stefan Zweig

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

— Stefan Zweig

“Neštěstí činí zranitelným a neustálé utrpení nespravedlivým.”

— Stefan Zweig

One can run away from anything but oneself.

— Stefan Zweig

“To guard oneself from presumption.”

— Stefan Zweig