23 Quotes by Franz Werfel

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)

Ignominy has always been the younger sister of misfortune.

The latter class [peasants] is always unaffected by the course of historic events. Like cats who are attached to a house and not to the people who dwell in it, the poorer type of peasant belongs less to the nation than to the soil. Therefore, however numerous they are, they never constitute a danger for a conqueror.

Era l'orgoglio che infiamma sempre la nostra materia, quando lo spirito le ha dato una sconfitta.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.