“Books are, I find, the best provisions a man can take with him on life’s journey.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.” — 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
“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
