Stefan Zweig Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Compassion, Sight

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

• Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

  Stefan Zweig

  Compassion, Long, Suffering

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

• Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

  Stefan Zweig

  Spiritual, Firsts, Emotion

• Ah, how fatefully swift is the move from one feeling to another.

  Stefan Zweig

  Moving, Feelings, Emotion

  Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.198, Pushkin Press

• It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pieces, Way, Youth

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

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