Stefan Zweig Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

  Stefan Zweig

  Flower, Book, Men

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

• I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Book, Hands, Ideas

  Stefan Zweig (2011). “Chess”, p.41, Penguin UK

• One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against the inexorable fate of all that lives - transitoriness and oblivion.

  Stefan Zweig

  Book, Fate, Order

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.126, Pushkin Press

• The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths.

  Stefan Zweig

  Art, Book, Silent

• (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

  Stefan Zweig

  Notebook, Education, Learning

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