Schnitzler Quotes

#1. I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

Eric Kandel

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

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

#5. It seemed to him a thousand times worse to stand there as the only one unmasked amid a host of masks, than suddenly to stand naked among those fully dressed.

Arthur Schnitzler

#6. Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.

Arthur Schnitzler

#7. There are all kinds of flight from responsibility. There is a flight into death, a flight into sickness, and finally a flight into stupidity.

Arthur Schnitzler

#8. Who says you only get one? If you're lucky, you will meet The One, The Two, The Three ... and so on.
Nesta

Cathy Hopkins

#9. Never before have I been so tempted to chase someone.

M. Leighton

#10. It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

#12. It took a scenario that he was going to die for Fred to wake up. It took that kind of shock for his life to be transformed. Maybe that's what needs to happen for all of us, for everyone who lives on Earth. That could be what a requiem scenario offers us.

Peter M. Senge

#13. The best one can hope for is a government favorable to certain claims and demands from the Left.

Gilles Deleuze

#14. My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.

Robbie Amell

#15. They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#16. Ghosts! - They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

#18. Vin didn't consider herself to be either self-assured or self-motivated. Still, she saw no point in asking why. Life had taught her that sometimes things simply happened.

Brandon Sanderson

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

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

#21. America is the most fertile ground of opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#22. 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.

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

#25. We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

William Hazlitt

#26. Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

George Herbert

#27. I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Tim Duncan

#28. Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.

Arthur Schnitzler

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

Arthur Schnitzler

#30. I want painting to be my flashlight.

Squeak Carnwath