More Quotes by Stefan Zweig
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.
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.
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
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.
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
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.
