Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzlerwas an Austrian author and dramatist...
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth15 May 1862
Arthur Schnitzler quotes about
photography waiting able
To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.
memories writing easy
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.
brother sleep doe
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
creatures died
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
care want want-to-be-happy
You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.
gratitude pride opportunity
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.
writing love-and-death subjects
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
liberty libertarian belief
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
loneliness mask disguise
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
hate charm love-or-hate
When you cannot love or hate anymore, then where is the charm of life?
tasks illusion principal
The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.
mean sincerity practicals
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.