Top 23 Franz Werfel Quotes
#1. Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.
Franz Werfel
#2. Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses.
Jag Randhawa
#3. Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
Franz Werfel
#4. It felt real, seeing his friend like that. It was like a gift. He wasn't into spiritual bullshit, but damn. Damn. That Mouse had become his friend was a gift, but a curse as well. If he'd left that whole situation alone, would Mouse - would James - have had a better life? A different outcome?
Debra Anastasia
#5. Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)
Franz Werfel
#6. I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!
Blake Lively
#7. I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
Veerappa Moily
#8. Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us.
Franz Werfel
#9. Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
Franz Werfel
#10. I coughed and choked, and drowned on moonlight, which tastes like butter and steel and salt and mist. And then, just like that, just when I thought she was going to kill me, suck the air out of my lungs and make me a ghost too, she lifted her hand, and ... faded away.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#11. I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
Amy Lee
#13. But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then the coming together again, that we find our own identity and define our relationships.
Ann Patchett
#14. Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.
Franz Werfel
#15. Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
#16. . . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)
Franz Werfel
#17. We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.
Franz Werfel
#18. Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
Franz Werfel
#19. The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Howard Staunton
#20. False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
Franz Werfel
#21. The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
Franz Werfel
#22. If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.
Aziz Ansari
#23. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
Franz Werfel
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