Werfel Franz Quotes & Sayings

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death. — Franz Werfel

When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster. — Libba Bray

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind. — 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

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. — Franz Werfel

The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily. — Daniel Smith

When you forget yourself, rest all forget you... — Ranu Das

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

There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were. — Ludwig Von Mises

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them. — Franz Werfel

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go. — Franz Werfel

You better hope she doesn't say a word," Gabe warned, lifting a finger to Uri's nose.
Uri grabbed the finger laughing, "What are you going to do, cupcake? Seduce me to death, in all your sexy glory?"
"Just shut up," Gabe groaned, pushing the door shut in his friend's face. — Wendy Owens

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love. — Franz Werfel

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics. — Franz Werfel

Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. — Franz Werfel

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind of wiring so to speak could in some sense be related to having a different way of thinking which could produce genius type thoughts. — H. A. Berlin

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

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate. — Franz Werfel

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525) — Franz Werfel

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment. — Franz Werfel

The friendly, welcoming smiles she had grown to love still made her breath catch, but he'd added a new weapon to his arsenal. A secret, intimate smile that reminded her of warm kisses and strong arms. It never failed to flush her cheeks and flutter her stomach. The man was an invalid in a dressing gown convalescing amid a mound of cushions on the parlor settee; yet when he smiled at her like that, he became masculinity personified. Gideon had a dash of the rogue in him. And Adelaide adored him for it. — Karen Witemeyer