28 Quotes by Arthur Schnitzler

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.