Franz Werfel Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Franz Werfel
For many people it is depressing even to move house. A lost fragment of life always remains. To move to another town, settle in a foreign country, is for everyone a major decision. But, to be suddenly driven forth, within twenty-four hours, from one's home, one's work, the reward of years of steady industry. To become a helpless prey of help. To be sent defenceless out to Asiatic highroads, with several thousand miles of dust, stones, and morass before one. To know that one will never again find a decently human habitation, never again sit down to a proper table. Yet this is all nothing. To be more shackled than any convict. To be counted as outside the law, a vagabond, whom anyone has the right to kill unpunished. — Franz Werfel
Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. — Franz Werfel
. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525) — Franz Werfel
The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate. — Franz Werfel
Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
— Franz Werfel
Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. — Franz Werfel
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. — Franz Werfel
Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics. — Franz Werfel
The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. — Franz Werfel
We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go. — Franz Werfel
False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them. — Franz Werfel
Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581) — Franz Werfel