Stefan Zweig Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Husband, Regret

• Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

  Stefan Zweig

  Hero, Discovery, Conquer The World

• To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, Past, Anxiety

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

• As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.

  Stefan Zweig

  Fall, Reality, Drawing

  Stefan Zweig (1955). “Stories and Legends”

• Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

  Stefan Zweig

  Gratitude, Kings, Age

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