One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit… — 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
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
He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
