Quotes from Arthur Schnitzler

Per sempre, voleva aggiungere Fridolin, ma prima ancora che pronunciasse quelle parole, lei gli pose un dito sulle labbra e sussurrò come fra sé: « Non si può ipotecare il futuro »

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?

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

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

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

The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.