371 Quotes by Stefan Zweig

C'était la première fois que je souffrais de ce sort de n'être pas reconnue de toi, ce sort qu'une vie entière j'ai subi et avec lequel je m'en vais; inconnue, toujours inconnue à tes yeux

Only those with whom life had dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love.

İnsana mutluluk kadar sağlık katan bir şey yoktur ve en büyük mutluluk da bir başka insanı mutlu etmektir.

My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking, black-clad men bringing a coffin, and they will put him in it, my poor boy, my only child.

O femeie este cu atît mai nobilă și mai cinstită cu cît urmează, liberă, sentimentul ei sincer, îndelung încercat – și o regină este cu atît mai regală, cu cît se poartă cît mai omenește.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Conocía desde luego, por propia experiencia, el misterioso poder de atracción del «juego de reyes», de ese juego entre los juegos, el único entre los ideados por el hombre que escapa soberanamente a cualquier tiranía del azar, y otorga los laureles de la victoria exclusivamente al espíritu o, mejor aún, a una forma muy característica de agudeza mental.

He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past.

Jusqu'au dernier moment l'homme qui, doué d'une volonté prométhéenne, veut arracher à la terre son secret sentira la griffe du doute lui déchirer le cœur.