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

We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the…

— Stefan Zweig

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of…

— 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

“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

A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood…

— Stefan Zweig

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.

— Stefan Zweig

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

— Stefan Zweig

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

— Stefan Zweig

“And although our time gave me the opportunity like anyone else, I never got my hands on the property or assets of…

— Stefan Zweig

“Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic…

— Stefan Zweig

“Homeward bound I suddenly noticed before me my own shadow as I had seen the shadow of the other war behind the…

— 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

“Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our…

— Stefan Zweig

“Neštěstí činí zranitelným a neustálé utrpení nespravedlivým.”

— Stefan Zweig

“The true essence of freedom is that it can never restrict the freedom of another.”

— Stefan Zweig

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

— Stefan Zweig

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he…

— Stefan Zweig

One can run away from anything but oneself.

— Stefan Zweig

“To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: “Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless…

— Stefan Zweig

I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the…

— Stefan Zweig

“While the Austrian crown was dissolving like jelly in your fingers, everyone wanted Swiss francs and American dollars, and large numbers of…

— Stefan Zweig

“Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives…

— Stefan Zweig

Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it…

— Stefan Zweig

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

— Stefan Zweig