More Quotes by Stefan Zweig
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.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments. It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
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 single hour.
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
