Books Quote by Stefan Zweig

“His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down…

— Robert Musil

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the…

— Georges Simenon

“He thinks one’s life can be distilled to a narrative that has a beginning and an end. He knows nothing about the kind of…

— Kristin Hannah

“And the more I live, the more I dread death, even while I abhor life. Such an enigma is man -- born to perish…

— Mary Shelley

“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not…

— Paul Hoffman

“What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is…

— Catherine Crowe

“By His death He proved that He possessed life only to hold it, and to spend it, for God.”

— Andrew Murray

“Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man’s energies are directed out from himself and…

— Louis L'Amour

“He spent long hours meditating on the wisdom of loving living things which invariably ended up dead.”

— Rohinton Mistry

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took…

— James Joyce