Quotes from Arthur Schnitzler

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido.

Fakat sonra, geçen gecenin sudan maceralar? hakk?ndaki hafif gevezelikten sonra, en duru ruha bile bulan?k ve tehlikeli girdaplar sokabilecek o gizli, hemen hemen hiç sezilmeyen arzulara dald?lar ve hiç özlem duymad?klar? ve kaderin anla??lmaz rüzgar?n?n kendilerini, rüyada da olsa, bir defa savurabileceÄŸi gizli bölgelerden bahsettiler.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.

There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

Man kann jemanden wahnsinnig lieben und muss doch um acht Uhr früh aufstehen, nicht wahr?

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?

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.

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

Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.

Lebensklugheit bedeutet: Alle Dinge möglichst wichtig, aber keines völlig ernst zu nehmen.

Unter Antinomien nicht zusammenbrechen, das ist unsere Lebensaufgabe.

We all act parts, and wise is he who knows it.

So these—these were the Wanderings for which the youth of Vienna had yesterday sent him their thanks. Had he deserved them? He would not have been able to say. The whole sorry life that he had led now passed through his mind. Never had he felt so deeply that he was an old man, that not only the hopes, but also the disappointments lay far behind him. A dull hurt rose up in him. He put the book aside, he could not read on. He had the feeling that he had long since forgotten about himself.

Revolutionär ohne Mut, abenteuerlustig ohne die Fähigkeit, Unbequemlichkeiten zu ertragen — Egoist ohne Rücksichtslosigkeit - und endlich ein Künstler ohne Fleiß - ein Selbstkenner ohne Tendenz zur Besserung — ein Verächter des allgemeinen Urteils mit der kleinlichsten Empfindlichkeit

Dieu est-il le rêve de l'humanité? Ce serait trop beau. L'humanité est-elle le rêve de Dieu? Ce serait trop abominable.

ANATOL: Ach, jak jsme se pak vraceli dom?, v ko?áÃ…â"¢e... jako dÃ…â"¢ív. Položila mi hlavu na prsa. Te? se už nikdy nerozlou?íme - Ã…â"¢ekla... MAX: Probu? se, pÃ…â"¢íteli, a koukej, abys dospÄ›l ku konci. ANATOL: "Už se nikdy nerozlou?íme"... A dnes ve dvÄ› se žením! MAX: S jinou. ANATOL: Nu co; ?lovÄ›k se vždyždycky žení s jinou.

Da cane bastonato, si era di nuovo trasformato in un uomo condannato a percepire le bastonate non come dolore fisico, ma come profonda vergogna.

Davvero, Else, non vuoi più giocare?». - «No, Paul, non me la sento più. Ciao.

La realtà di una notte, e anzi neppure quella di un'intera vita umana, non significano, al tempo stesso, anche la loro più profonda verità ». « E nessun sogno » disse egli con un leggero sospiro « è interamente un sogno ».