23 Quotes by Franz Werfel

In the fawning soul of the mob everything is justified by the victorious employment of force. It transfigures treachery, desertion, murder, lying, and any kind of rascality, turning them into wholesome necessities which the servile people accept and swiftly forget as a child does a bitter medicine.

That which serves life is the business of women.[Jeremiah, to Queen Maacha]

Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.

Could the cosmos possibly have a face with a horribly receding forehead and with cannibalistic jaws?

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

The deeds of our hearts too...are not without their progeny.[Jeremiah, to Ebed-melech]

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.