Quotes by
Stefan Zweig |
1881-1942 , Austrian writer
Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Zweig achieved distinction in several genres—poetry, essays, short stories, and dramas—most notably in his interpretations of imaginary and historical characters. | 22 quotes | 1,153 visits |
Quotations
| • | 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 existence. 8 |
| • | Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured? 8 |
| • | On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it. 7 |
| • | If you are going to sell yourself, you should at least get a good price. 5 |
| • | One can run away from anything but oneself. 5 |
| • | Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal. 5 |
| • | He who is alone in happiness will be alone in misery as well. 5 |
| • | 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, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore. 5 |
| • | Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. 4 |
| • | Supreme achievement and outstanding capacity are only rendered possible by mental concentration, by a sublime monomania that verges on lunacy. 3 |
| • | Happy people are poor psychologists. 3 |
| • | Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny. 3 |
| • | Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems. |
| • | The avaricious are thrifty with time as well as money. |
| • | People who are so much at the mercy of their moods should never be given serious responsibilities. |
| • | No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. |
| • | Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. |
| • | The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths. |
| • | How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful! |
| • | The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural. |
| • | In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, for someone to play against himself is absurd... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. |
| • | Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you’ll discover your hidden resources. |
