Stefan Zweig Quotes

There are two kinds of compassion. One, the weak and sentimental [...] which is not exactly compassion, but rather an instinctive defense of the soul against the pain of others. And the other, the only one that matters, is devoid of sentimentality [...] willing to endure with patience and resignation until its last strength and even beyond.

Every shadow is, after all, a daughter of light and only those who have known the clarity and the darkness, the war and the peace, the rise and the fall, only they have truly lived.