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Stefan Zweig Quotes

1881–1942 Austria

Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer.

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Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Beware of Pity (1939)

In the end one needs forbearance to get by in this world.

The Post Office Girl (1982)

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

The Post Office Girl (1982)

Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted.

Beware of Pity (1939)

One can run away from anything but oneself.

Beware of Pity (1939)

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

Beware of Pity (1939)

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934)

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. We must approach knowledge from the inside; inspired by passion.

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

The Post Office Girl (1982)

No one would ever believe how hard it is to be really alone in a city of millions when you don't have money.

The Post Office Girl (1982)

The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere.

Beware of Pity (1939)

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

The Post Office Girl (1982)

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

The Post Office Girl (1982)

But it is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

Beware of Pity (1939)

Youth is always right. Those who follow the counsels of youth are wise.

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. Von D (1927)

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

Gratitude fills us with rejoicing, for it so rarely finds frank expression; delicacy of feeling warms our hearts.

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

Beware of Pity (1939)

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

Beware of Pity (1939)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Stefan Zweig (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.