More Quotes by Stefan Zweig
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
