28 Quotes by Arthur Schnitzler

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing them.

To be unhappy is only half the misfortune to be pitied is misery complete

To be serious and to be humorless, that's two different things.

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

Unter Antinomien nicht zusammenbrechen, das ist unsere Lebensaufgabe.

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

It seemed to him a thousand times worse to stand there as the only one unmasked amid a host of masks, than suddenly to stand naked among those fully dressed.