Stefan Zweig

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

— Stefan Zweig

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

— Stefan Zweig

“Belli bir hedefi olmayan her hayat bir hatadır.”

— Stefan Zweig

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

— Stefan Zweig

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

— Stefan Zweig

“To be free of customs: “Custom clouds the true face of things”.”

— Stefan Zweig

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

— Stefan Zweig

“Acı çekmek için bile yetersizdim.”

— Stefan Zweig

“To be free of vanity or pride, these perhaps the gravest of all indulgences.”

— Stefan Zweig

“the natural animosity between those who slept and those who were stirring in the sleeping city.”

— Stefan Zweig

“Death is a certain refuge, never to be feared”; “Strong diseases require strong remedies”, writes Montaigne”

— Stefan Zweig

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

— Stefan Zweig

If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price.

— Stefan Zweig

“He has no defined destination. All roads are open to his “pensée vagabonde”.”

— Stefan Zweig

“To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.”

— Stefan Zweig

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

— Stefan Zweig

“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the…

— Stefan Zweig

With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different…

— Stefan Zweig

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

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

“The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an…

— Stefan Zweig

“and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former…

— Stefan Zweig

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time;…

— Stefan Zweig

“He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling…

— Stefan Zweig

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely…

— Stefan Zweig

“Nationalism emerged to agitate the world only after the war, and the first visible phenomenon which this intellectual epidemic of our century…

— Stefan Zweig

“But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science,…

— Stefan Zweig

“We certainly did—I do not deny it—have immeasurably more individual freedom, and we did not just welcome that, we made use of…

— Stefan Zweig

Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic…

— Stefan Zweig

(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere…

— Stefan Zweig

But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever…

— Stefan Zweig

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

“happiness would prevail where trees were planted.”

— Stefan Zweig

“I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things.”

— Stefan Zweig

“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.”

— Stefan Zweig

“To know by heart is not to know, it is to keep what they have given you and store it in your…

— Stefan Zweig

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

— Stefan Zweig

Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely…

— Stefan Zweig

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead…

— Stefan Zweig

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

— Stefan Zweig