Quotes from Stefan Zweig

That's it. Evasion is key.

soothing silence instead of an oppressive one.

The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great, but whose art of living is so modest.

Kay?ts?z kalan için baÅŸkalar?n?n uyar?lm??l??? en hoÅŸ izlencedir.

I do not subscribe to this communal error of judging a man according to the way I perceive things.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez.

He desires only to preserve a few memories, assemble a few thoughts, to dream more than live and patiently await death, calmly preparing for it.

Life is servitude if we lack the freedom to die.

What one's muscles have missed can be made up later; the élan toward the intellectual, the soul's inner grasping power, is set in motion in those decisive formative years, and only he who has learned early to spread his soul out wide may later hold the entire world within himself.

The true essence of freedom is that it can never restrict the freedom of another.

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.

It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: "How should I live?

Como en el siglo dieciocho lo francés, los atributos árabe, persa, indostánico, se identificaban en la Edad Media con los conceptos de exuberante, refinado, distinguido, cortesano, costoso y precioso.

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

Immer sind die Instinkte wissender als unsere wachen Gedanken.

Toplum içinde olduÄŸum zamanlarda da hayranl???m? ifade ederken yapay bir heyecan sergileyip etkileyici ÅŸeyleri abartarak içimin ne kadar hissiz ve kay?ts?z olduÄŸunu gizlemek için bir anlamda gösteri yap?yordum.

That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.

and there's no point in a life lived aimlessly.

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great display of it.

A well-chosen tie could make me almost merry; a good book, an excursion in a motor car or an hour with a woman left me fully satisfied. It particularly pleased me to ensure that this way of life, like a faultlessly correct suit of English tailoring, did not make me conspicuous in any way. I believe I was considered pleasant company, I was popular and welcome in society, and most who knew me called me a happy man.

But travelling, even as far as to other worlds under other stars, did not allow me to escape Europe and my anxieties. However far I went from Europe, its fate came with me.

Yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey kuytulardaki bir çocuÄŸun fark edilmeyen sevgisiyle kar??laÅŸt?r?lamaz.

We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.