Stefan Zweig Quotes about War

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

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

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

Stefan Zweig

Peace, War, Talking

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

Stefan Zweig

War, Blood, Enemy

Stefan Zweig (1929). “Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes”, p.73, Library of Alexandria

The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.

Stefan Zweig

Military, War, Creativity

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

Stefan Zweig

War, Men, Whole

"Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.

Stefan Zweig

War, Fall, Two

Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.

Stefan Zweig

War, Garden, Our World

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

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”