“ Sarılabilecekleri herhangi bir şeyin olduğu hissetmek yalnızlar için, kendi içine hapsolmuş insanlar için ne mucizevi bir şeydi. Stefan Zweig
“ Sabit fikirli, kafasını tek bir düşünceye takmış her türlü insan, yaşamım boyunca beni çekmiştir, çünkü bir insan kendini ne kadar sınırlarsa, öte yandan sonsuza o kadar yakın olur; işte böyle görünüş… Stefan Zweig
“ Pero el tiempo es un aliado oportunista a incierto; se colocó siempre en el bando de los fuertes y deja despreciativamente en el atolladero al que confía en él sin moverse, Stefan Zweig
“ One must seek another certitude beyond the world, beyond the homeland; one must refuse to join the chorus of the demoniacal and create one’s own homeland, one’s own world, outside the present time. Stefan Zweig
“ No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready… Stefan Zweig
“ Nationalism emerged to agitate the world only after the war, and the first visible phenomenon which this intellectual epidemic of our century brought about was xenophobia; morbid dislike of the foreig… Stefan Zweig
“ Nada se nos hizo, sólo que se nos situó dentro de la nada absoluta, porque, según es notorio, ninguna cosa del mundo ejerce tanta presión sobre el alma humana como la nada. Stefan Zweig
“ Montaigne is the sworn enemy of all responsibility. He strives to dodge decisions. Solitary sage in a time of mass fanaticism, he seeks seclusion and flight. Stefan Zweig
“ Madness, he exclaimed to himself, in astonishment, faltering. Madness! What do they want? Once again, once again! War once again, war that had so recently shattered his whole life? With a strange shud… Stefan Zweig
“ Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate besto… Stefan Zweig
“ Karşı çıkmamın nedeni, orada yine tanıdık insanlarla bir arada olmak, yine nezaketen bazı şeyler yapmak ve sosyal davranmak zorunda kalmaktı. Oysa benim kendi başıma kalmaktan başka bir isteğim yoktu,… Stefan Zweig
“ It’s just opposition that rejuvenates. Had I remained a senator, it would have been too easy for me; I would long since have become intellectually lazy and inconsistent. Nothing harms a thinking man m… Stefan Zweig
“ 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 elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain t… Stefan Zweig
“ In the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives. Stefan Zweig
“ I am an impatient, temperamental reader. Anything long-winded, high-flown or gushing irritates me, so does everything that is vague and indistinct, in fact anything that unnecessarily holds the reader… Stefan Zweig
“ How to escape the tyrannical demands that the state and Church seek to impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside? Stefan Zweig
“ He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well a… Stefan Zweig
“ He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma, no teachings, no law, no system, only an example: the man who seeks himself in all… Stefan Zweig
“ For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature. Stefan Zweig
