Stefan Zweig Quotes about Life

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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Stefan Zweig

Life, Regret, Years

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Stefan Zweig

Life, War, Fall

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

Stefan Zweig

Life, Goal, Life Is

Stefan Zweig (1927). “Conflicts: Three Tales”

This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.

Stefan Zweig

Life, War, Men

Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig, Henry G. Alsberg (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”