Best Stefan Zweig Quotes
- Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon. Discovering
- There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice. Feel
- for the more a man restricts himself the closer he is, conversely, to infinity. Closer
- Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. Darkness
- In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a… Bring
- The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. Any
- In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting. Fleeting
- Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. Deed
- Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again… Abyss
- For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… Ago
- He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it… Acquainted
- The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the… All
- She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing… Age
- He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as… Actors
- Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession… Adults
- Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into… All
- How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful! Beautiful
- Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn… Authority
- No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. Conscience
- For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them… Bloodless
- In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously… Big
- Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes,… Anywhere
- In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical,… Absurd
- Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon… Beethoven
- For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are… Aloof