
Top 19 Werfel And Werfel Quotes
#1. Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.
Franz Werfel
#2. Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.
Mina Loy
#3. My experience of the past several years does not lend itself to the belief that good can or will defeat evil. This is not a pessimistic view, but simply an observation of facts as I have experienced them.
Scott Frost
#5. Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
Franz Werfel
#7. 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
#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. Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
William Penn
#11. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
Franz Werfel
#12. Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.
Franz Werfel
#13. Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Franz Werfel
#14. . . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)
Franz Werfel
#15. We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.
Franz Werfel
#16. 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
#17. False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
Franz Werfel
#18. The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.
Franz Werfel
#19. I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
Laura Wade
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