Arthur Schnitzler Quotations

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.Tact means not noticing them.

To be unhappy is only half the misfortune to be pitied is misery complete

To be serious and to be humorless, that's two different things.