Quotes from Stefan Zweig

Belli bir hedefi olmayan her hayat bir hatad?r.

He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.

We must "conserve the freedom of our soul and not mortgage it, except on those rare occasions when we deem it the right path".

It's no use torturing oneself; it only tortures other people.

An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No wind blows for him who has no harbour.

La plus grande chose du monde c'est de savoir être à soi.

Mas no espírito, há lugar para todas as oposições; mesmo o que nunca triunfa, na realidade, conserva um dinamismo eficaz, e são precisamente os sonhos que nao se podem efectivar os que se mostram mais invencíveis.

Ben kendimi, ?????n hiçbir zaman içinde kalmadan geçip gittiÄŸi camdan bir nesne gibi hissettim.

How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!

Nada se nos hizo, sólo que se nos situó dentro de la nada absoluta, porque, según es notorio, ninguna cosa del mundo ejerce tanta presión sobre el alma humana como la nada.

But we need to make a distinction: we can love this or that, but we cannot "form a marriage bond" unless it is with our own selves.

The longest voyage of discovery, the boldest adventure in the records of our race, had begun.

Y lentamente, de su oscuro miedo empezó a brotar algo que todavía no era felicidad, pero sí un asombro ante la diversidad de la vida.

Pero aun las ideas, por más insustanciales que parezcan, necesitan un punto de apoyo, de lo contrario empiezan a girar insensatas en derredor de sí mismas; ellas tampoco soportan la nada. De la mañana a la noche esperaba alguna

And he listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future would not speak to him again, revealing the present to him as well as the past.

To guard oneself from presumption.

Odvaha není ?asto nic jiného než obrácená slabost.

To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.

NeÅ¡tÄ›stí ?iní zranitelným a neustálé utrpení nespravedlivým.

He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all flows over him, leaving nothing behind: no deep conviction, no solid opinion, nothing fixed, nothing stable.

He is at one and the same time all and nothing, always different and yet ever the same, the Montaigne of 1550, 1560, 1570, 1580, the Montaigne of yesterday.

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things".

L'amour coûte cher aux vieillards—I think that was the title of one of Balzac's most moving stories, and many could be written on the subject. But the old people who know most about it are happy

Je veux te dévoiler toute ma vie, cette vie qui n'a vraiment commencé que le jour où je t'ai connu.