Quotes from Stefan Zweig

Tarihte bir baÅŸar?n?n ahlaki deÄŸeri asla pratik faydas?yla ölçülmez, insanl??a kal?c? bir zenginlik katanlar, insanl???n bilgisini çoÄŸalt?p yarat?c? gücünü artt?ranlard?r. syf-230

Sabit fikirli, kafas?n? tek bir düÅŸünceye takm?? her türlü insan, yaÅŸam?m boyunca beni çekmiÅŸtir, çünkü bir insan kendini ne kadar s?n?rlarsa, öte yandan sonsuza o kadar yak?n olur; iÅŸte böyle görünüÅŸte dünyadan kopuk yaÅŸayanlar, özel yap?lar? içinde kar?nca gibi, dünyan?n tuhaf ve eÅŸi benzeri olmayan bir maketini kurarlar.

Hemen ÅŸöyle düÅŸündüm, eÄŸer bir avans veriyorlarsa temiz bir iÅŸ olmal?, bu ateÅŸli arazilerde mezar taÅŸlar?n?n bizdekinden üç kat h?zl? çoÄŸald???n? biliyordum, ama insan genç olunca ateÅŸin ve ölümün her zaman baÅŸkalar?na s?çrayaca??n? düÅŸünür.

the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be.

Has this new dress, this new world made me so different? Or was this inside me all along, and I was just too fainthearted, too timid? That's what Mother always said. Maybe everything's not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you'll discover your hidden resources.

O anda sana â??k olmuÅŸtum. Biliyorum çevrendeki kad?nlar sana, ??mart?lm?? olan sana bu sözcükleri s?kça söylemiÅŸtir. Fakat inan bana hiç kimse seni benim o zamanlar olduÄŸum ve hep öyle kald???m halimle ve hep seveceÄŸim ÅŸekilde, köle gibi, sad?k bir köpek gibi, kol kanat gererek sevmemiÅŸtir.

Aber wie sollte ein so rascher Ruhm nicht einen so leeren Kopf beduseln? (...) Und dann, ist es nicht eigentlich verflucht leicht, sich für einen großen Menschen zu halten, wenn man nicht mit der leisesten Ahnung belastet ist, daß ein Rembrandt, ein Beethoven, ein Dante, ein Napoleon je gelebt haben?

Her ÅŸey olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi olmuÅŸtu; çünkü baz? insanlar dünyaya aÅŸk için gelmezler, kavuÅŸman?n ac? verici mutluluklar?n? ta??yamayacak kadar zay?f olduklar? için onlarda sadece beklentinin kutsal ürpertisi vard?r.

Y creo que si me llamaras cuando ya estuviera reposando en mi lecho de muerte, tendría la fuerza suficiente como para levantarme e ir hacía a ti.

el momento apasionado que se apaga sin dejar rastro en el humo del olvido.

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then.

Consciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.

Fouché) tan invisible y activo como el mecanismo de un reloj.

The clouds floating white and restless in the sky were those you see only in May or June. They were innocent companions, still young and flighty, who ran playfully across the blue road to hide suddenly behind high mountains, linking arms and running away, sometimes crumpling up like handkerchiefs, sometimes unravelling into streamers, and eventually playing a practical joke by setting themselves down on the mountain like white caps.

Talleyrand define con enojo el cargo de ministro de Policia: "El ministro de Policia es un hombre que se ocupa, en primera línea, de todos los asuntos que le importan, y en segundo lugar, de todos los que no le importan".

He had no taste for his own company and avoided such an encounter as much as possible, for the last thing he wanted was to make close acquaintance with himself.

Arzuland??? zaman güzeldi, zeki insanlar?n aras?nda nüktedand?, gururu okÅŸand???nda kibirliydi, sevildiÄŸi zaman a??kt?.

I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own

zay?f noktalar?n? bilmeyenlerin kendilerini bilenlerden daha iyi hissettiklerine inan?yorum! Zay?f noktalar?n? asla öÄŸrenmemeleri daha iyidir.

Tausend Jahre kaufen nicht zurück, was eine einzige Sekunde versäumt.

Sen, beni asla, asla tan?mayan, bir su birikintisinin yan?ndan geçercesine yan?mdan geçip giden, bir taÅŸa basarcas?na üstüme basan, hep, ama hep yoluna devam eden ve beni sonsuz bir bekleyiÅŸ içerisinde b?rakan sen, kimsin ki benim için?

I am not one to compare long melodies as did Mozart. I can't get beyond short themes. But what I can do, is to utilize such a theme, paraphrase it and extract everything that is in it, and I don't think there's anybody today who can match me at that.

Meine Bücherei ist mein Königreich, und hier versuche ich als absoluter Herrscher zu regieren.

Ben yaÅŸam? daha önce hiç bu denli arzuyla yaÅŸamam??t?m ve ÅŸimdi biliyorum ki, kendiyle ilgili durumlarda kay?ts?zlaÅŸan herkes bir suç iÅŸleyecektir.