Quotes About Zweig

so many artists and scientists, the youthful Zweig found school a great bore.

The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

They did nothing—other than subjecting us to complete nothingness. For, as is well known, nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

no one would have pity on the foolish slave of his own pity.

Aquella memoria sólo había podido ejercitarse y formarse de aquella manera diabólicamente infalible por medio del eterno secreto de cualquier perfección: la concentración.

Out of pity — ever and again out of pity! — and perhaps, too, to keep at bay his melancholy importunity, I had at one time and another bought three or four of these sordid, badly printed volumes and then casually left them lying about on my shelves.

Ha empezado la última misa, más bien el funeral del Imperio romano de Oriente, pues, por última vez, se celebran

Zweig would have dismissed our modern emotional incontinence as a sign not of honesty but of an increasing inability or unwillingness truly to feel.

Zweig viewed the Nazis as beneath contempt. Their doctrine and world outlook being so obviously ridiculous and morally odious, why waste time refuting them?