Quotes from Stefan Zweig

La nueva y milagrosa energía, la energía eléctrica, se ha aliado con el otro elemento dinámico que mayor fuerza tiene en la vida: la voluntad humana. Un hombre ha encontrado la misión de su vida. Y la misión, a su hombre.

But, after all, shadows themselves are born of light. And only he who has experienced dawn and dusk, war and peace, ascent and decline, only he has truly lived.

Robespierre) Bütün gücü kat?l???ndan geliyor. Her ÅŸeyde dediÄŸim dedik davranmak, hayat?n?n bütün anlam? ve biçimi oldu. Ancak böylelikle ihtilale kendi benliÄŸinin damgas?n? vurabilir ya da parçalanabilirdi. Böyle bir insan hiçbir itiraza, düÅŸüncelerde bir baÅŸka görüÅŸe katlanamaz.

Una palabra de honor siempre sirve a la mujer de barandilla para agarrarse antes de caer.

Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...

Ich weiß, Frauen haben Dir, dem Verwöhnten, oft dieses Wort gesagt. Aber glaube mir, niemand hat Dich so sklavisch, so hündisch, so hingebungsvoll geliebt wie dieses Wesen, das ich war und das ich für Dich immer geblieben bin.

Siempre que un pueblo recurre a la violencia para arrebatarles la libertad a otros, pierde con ello, en una enigmática venganza, la fuerza portentosa de su propio aislamiento.

God had told her to take fees for instruction and healing. At first she had not grasped the reason, but then it had become plain to her. By making material sacrifices, the patient strengthens his own faith. The more he has to pay, the more earnestly does he desire to be cured.

the criminals, the warmongers must be the other fellows; we had taken up arms in self-defense against a villainous and crafty enemy, who had "attacked" peaceful Austria and Germany without the slightest provocation.

Thunder does not come from a clear sky, nor yet from a cloud until there has been an accumulation of electrical stresses; and in like manner a miracle, if it is to happen, demands a particular predisposition, a peculiar nervous and religious tension of the mind. No one ever experiences a miracle unless he has long and passionately awaited it.

a woman's feelings know everything without words, without conscious awareness.

Marie-Antoinette'e hiçbir ÅŸey ikiyüzlülük ve rol yapma kadar yabanc? deÄŸildi; kocas?n? sinsice aldatmak ruhen onun tavr?na uymaz, ayr?ca o pek s?k rastlanan bulan?k kar???m, hem koca hem â??kla iliÅŸkiyi bir arada yürütme çirkinliÄŸi onun karakteri için söz konusu deÄŸildir.

Denn nichts auf Erden gleicht der unbemerkten Liebe eines Kindes aus dem Dunkel, weil sie so hoffnungslos, so dienend, so unterwürfig, so laurend und leidenschaftlich ist, wie niemals die begehrende und unbewußt doch fordernde Liebe einer erwachsenen Frau.

Hastal?klar gibi tutkular da ne suçlanabilir ne de onlara bir bahane bulunabilir. Bunlar sadece, daima yenilenen ve insanlarda deÄŸil de ara s?ra doÄŸada ortaya ç?kan dizginsiz güçler kar??s?nda dehÅŸete kap?lmayan ÅŸaÅŸk?nl?kla, geleneksel insan yasalar?n?n ölçüm deÄŸerlerine uygun olmayan ÅŸiddetli enerji boÅŸal?mlar?yla tan?mlanabilirler.

In such epochs where the highest values of life—our peace, our independence, our basic rights, all that makes our existence more pure, more beautiful, all that justifies it—are sacrificed to the demon inhabiting a dozen fanatics and ideologues, all the problems of the man who fears for his humanity come down to the same question: how to remain free?

En una comunidad solo puede reinar la armonía cuando los individuos subordinan sus propios intereses a los de la comunidad, en vez de procurar sacar ventajas personales de una posición pública.

But I don't really know where to go. I have no plans and no destination in mind - I feel I can't live in either of my two worlds...

I wanted to go back over what I had so fleetingly experienced step by step, relishing it in retrospect by virtue of that magical self-deception we call memory.

They did not know, those innocents who spread such lies, that the accusation of every possible cruelty against the enemy is as much war materiel as are munitions and planes, and that they are systematically taken out of storage at the beginning of every war. War does not permit itself to be coordinated with reason and righteousness. It needs stimulated emotions, enthusiasm for its own cause and hatred for the adversary.

Its radiant glow seemed much lighter and happier than this northern sky of eternal grey cloud.

no estoy cansado. Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

Du warst mir- wie soll ich es Dir sagen? jeder einzelne Vergleich ist zu gering- Du warst eben alles, mein ganzes Leben.

Pero toda sombra es, al fin y al cabo, hija de la luz y solo quien ha conocido la claridad y las tinieblas, la guerra y la paz, el ascenso y la caída, solo este ha vivido de verdad.

Tendrías que conocer toda mi vida, que siempre fue la tuya aunque nunca lo supiste