Quotes from Stefan Zweig

Erst im Unglück weiß man wahrhaft, wer man ist.

ArkadaÅŸlar beni teselli edecekler ve bana baz? sözler söyleyecekler; sözler, sözler; ama kelimeler bana nas?l yard?m edebilir ki? Biliyorum, yine yaln?z kalmak zorunday?m. Ve insanlar aras?nda yaln?z kalmaktan daha korkuncu yoktur.

I was seeing a human being overflowing with emotion, forcing his passion into his fingertips lest it tear him apart.

was profoundly convinced that were I suddenly to disappear, to fall from my horse, let us say, and break my neck, my fellow-officers would no doubt remark 'Pity about him,' or 'Poor Hofmiller!' but in a month's time no one would really miss me. Another man would be put in my place, would be given my mount, and that others would perform my duties just as well or just as badly as I myself.

Sadece yukar? ve yukar? bakt?m; orada ???k vard?, orada ev vard?, orada sen vard?n, oras? benim dünyamd?.

Derken içeriye karanl?k çöktü, t?pk? yüreÄŸime çöken karanl?k gibi.

I often quite forgot to look at the face which, surrounded by a collar high above them, was set impassively on top of an evening shirt or a glittering décolletage, a cold social mask.

Zavall? galipler olarak Tallien ve Barras, kendilerinden önceki ihtilal büyüklerine, Danton ve Robespierre'e katillerin cesetleri diye söverek, saÄŸ yandaki s?ralara, Cumhuriyetin gizli düÅŸmanlar? olan ?l?ml? politikac?lar?n yan?na korka korka oturduklar? an, yaln?zca tarihe ve ihtilal ruhuna deÄŸil, kendi kendilerine de ihanet etmiÅŸ oluyorlar.

The less I felt in myself, the more strongly I was drawn to those places where the whirligig of life spins most rapidly. If you are experiencing nothing yourself, the passionate restlessness of others stimulates the nervous system like music or drama.

I giorni solenni dell'esistenza hanno in sé una luminosità più intensa di quelli consueti.

I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?lar -sadece bizi en mutlak anlamdaki hiçliÄŸin içerisine yerleÅŸtirdiler, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhu üzerinde hiçlik kadar a??r bir bask? uygulayamaz.

Bir gün çocuksu bir gururla —belki de hâlâ o gururla hareket ediyorumdur— evinin önüne gelmedim; fakat inat ve isyanla dolu o boÅŸ akÅŸam ne korkunçtu. Ertesi akÅŸam tekrar evinin önünde gururu k?r?lm?? bir ÅŸekilde duruyor, bütün kaderim boyunca bana kapal? olan yaÅŸam?n?n önünde yapt???m gibi bekliyor, bekliyordum.

the ruin insufficiently ruined

Y esta búsqueda y este esfuerzo por la pureza de espíritu, por la salvaguarda de la libertad en una época de servilismo generalizado a ideologías y facciones, lo convierte hoy en nuestro hermano y contemporáneo.

Åžimdi bile onlar? gözya?? dökmeden düÅŸünemiyorum ama art?k gözlerimde yaÅŸ da kalmad?.

No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbour lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth rather than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

What Montaigne seeks is his interior self, that which cannot submit to state, to family, to time, to circumstances, to money, to property; this interior self, which Goethe labelled the "citadel", where all access is prohibited.

You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end...

Roth, non si inasprisca, abbiamo bisogno di lei

Ä°nsan?n kendini açmas? yeterliydi, insandan insana canl? bir ak?? baÅŸl?yordu hemen, yükseklerden derinlere iniyor, derinlerden tekrar sonsuzluÄŸa yükseliyordu

Het was fantastisch te leven in deze stad die gastvrij alles wat vreemd was opnam en zich graag gaf

With that sort of energy and tenacity a man can make money in all sorts of ways. But real fortunes are only made as the result of a special relation between receipts and expenditure, between earnings and out-goings. This, then, was the other secret in the rise of our friend Kanitz: in all those years he spent as good as nothing, apart from the fact that he supported a whole string of relations and paid for his brother's studies.

Jakob Mendel] leggeva come altri pregano, come i giocatori giocano e gli ubriachi tengono lo sguardo fisso nel vuoto storditi.