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“...διάβαζε με τον τρόπο που άλλοι προσεύχονται, που οι παίκτες παίζουν κι οι μεθυσμένοι στυλώνουν ναρκωμένοι τα μάτια στο κενό. Διάβαζε με μια τόσο συγκινητική κατάνυξη, που έκτοτε κάθε άλλος άνθρωπος που διαβάζει πάντα μου μοιάζει βέβηλος...

Ο Παλαιοβιβλιοπώλης Μέντελ”
― Stefan Zweig

“La máquina de 1792, la guillotina, inventada para suprimir toda resistncia contra el Estado, es una herramienta torpe comparada con la maquinaria policíaca, combinada y refinada por la superioridad espiritual del José ��dzܳ���é de 1799.”
― Stefan Zweig, ��dzܳ���é

“(��dzܳ���é) tan invisible y activo como el mecanismo de un reloj.”
― Stefan Zweig, ��dzܳ���é

“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".”
― Stefan Zweig, ��dzܳ���é

“იმდენი ვიოცნებე,რო��, თუ შეიძლება ას�� ითქვას ოცნება გადავცვითე...”
― Stefan Zweig, Brief einer Unbekannten

“One can't have literary comprehension without real experience, mere grammatical knowledge of the words is useless without recognition of their values, and when you young people want to understand a country and its language you should start by seeing it at its most beautiful, in the strength of its youth, at its most passionate. You should begin by hearing the language in the mouths of the poets who create and perfect it, you must have felt poetry warm and alive in your hearts before we smart anatomizing it.”
― Stefan Zweig

“Le parece maravilloso verse envuelta por la ardiente muchedumbre, dejarse amar por ese desconocido pueblo; en adelante sigue disfrutando de este amor de veinte millones de criaturas como de un derecho propio, sin sospechar que el derecho impone también deberes y que el amor mas puro acaba por fatigarse si no se siente correspondido.”
― Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

“Ganz blind arbeitete er vorwärts, ohne jeden Ehrgeiz, nur um sich zu betäuben und nicht an die vielen Dinge zu denken, auf die er verzichten mußte. Er begriff, daß ein wunderbares Geheimnis in diesem Fieber war, mit dem sich viele Leute über die Nutzlosigkeit und Leere ihres ganzen Lebens hinwegtäuschten, und hoffte, so auch seinem Leben einen Sinn aufzwingen zu können, freilich vergessend, daß die erste Jugend nicht einen Sinn des Lebens will, sondern das ganze vielfältige Leben selbst.”
― Stefan Zweig, Scharlach / Sternstunden der Menschheit

“ვიცი,რო�� ქალები,მაშინა�� კი ,როცა დანებები�� სურვილით იწვიან,ჩვეულებრივად თავს იკანუნებენ,თითქოს შეეშინდა�� ან აღშფოთდნენ��,იცია��,რო�� ეს უარი დაძნეული იქნება მუდარი��,სიცრუი��, ფიცითა და დაპირებები��...”
― Stefan Zweig, Brief einer Unbekannten

“Erasmus, nişan almamasına rağmen hedefi hep ortasından vurur. Özgür ve önyargısız bir kafanın hiç kimseye aldırmaksızın elini değdirdiği her şey, artık çoktan ekimiş tasarımların kafesinde yaşayan bir dünya için yepyeni bir görünüm kazanır. Çünkü bağımsız düşünebilen kişi, aynı zamanda başkaları için de en iyi ve en destekleyici biçimde düşünmüş olur." (Rotterdamlı Erasmus, s.58)”
― Stefan Zweig

“Edebiyatta sınırları aşan önemli kişiler arasında, günümüzün en büyüğü Dostoyevski'dir, ruh alanında kimse ondan daha fazla yeni ülke keşfetmemiştir; bu müthiş, bu ölçüye sığmaz adamın kendi ifadesiyle "ölçülemezlik ve sonsuzluk, yeryüzünün kendisi kadar elzemdi". Dostoyevski hiçbir yerde duraklamamıştır, "Her yerde sınırı aştım," diye yazar bir mektubunda gururla ve kendinden yakınarak, "her yerde".”
― Stefan Zweig, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky: Master Builders of the Spirit

“The power of love is not properly gauged if it is estimated only by the object that inspires it, if the tension preceding it is not taken into account--that gloomy space of disillusionment and loneliness which stretches in front of all the great events of the heart”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“Carlyle's axiom that the true university of these days is a good collection of books has remained valid as far as I'm concerned, and even today I am convinced that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, philologist, lawyer, or what will you, without having attended a university or even a Gymnasium.”
― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday

“Her eyes were like coffee beans, and, when she laughed, they really did seem to crackle like roasting beans.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“Unknown and unsuspected tender zones of feeling- but also, it must be admitted, very dangerous ones!”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“anyone who identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“again and again we fall hopelessly into the foolish error of thinking that Nature sets a special stamp on outstanding individuals so that they may be recognized at a glance.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“Things half done and hints half given are always bad; all the evil in the world comes from half-measures.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“goodness and truth have never yet succeeded in curing humanity or even a single human being.”
― Stefan Zweig

“it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“it's always good to know that one has saved at least one person, kept faith with one person, made a good job of one thing.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“between a woman who has once let a man see her desire and that man the atmosphere is charged with mysterious, dangerous tension.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“a human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbour. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“Only those with whom life had dealt hardly, the wretched, the slighted, the uncertain, the unlovely, the humiliated, could really be helped by love.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

“¿ Por qué morían tan jóvenes?, se pregunta Stefan Zweig hablando de aquella generación y de su lucha con el demonio. Novalis, quien, casi por su voluntad, un día cerró los ojos como un niño y mágicamente murió, decía en sus cuadernos que todos los humanos mueren maduros y en el momento adecuado, cuando han cumplido plenamente el aprendizaje que les corresponde. Ello significaría que Víctor Hugo, Goethe y Voltaire que superaron los ochenta años, no vivieron más que keats, que a los veinticinto dejó de oír al ruiseñor; ni más que Chatterton, quien después de crear un linaje de poetas, sus genealogías, sus obras, su correspondencia, su aparato crítico, sus biografias y su hermenéutica, se extinguió como una llama en su buhardilla a la edad de diescisiete años; ni más que el propio Novalis, que al morir, a los veintinueve, nos reveló que lo había vivido todo.”
― William Ospina, El año del verano que nunca llegó

“Los libros se escriben para ...unir a los seres humanos, y asi defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvida.”
― S.Zweig

“I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labour meant the purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on earth.”
― Stefan Zweig

“Au commencement étaient les épices”
― Zweig, Magellan