It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more? Arthur Schnitzler More Quotes by Arthur Schnitzler More Quotes From Arthur Schnitzler To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything. Arthur Schnitzler able photography waiting No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. Arthur Schnitzler mask disguise loneliness I write of love and death. What other subjects are there? Arthur Schnitzler love-and-death subjects writing It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. Arthur Schnitzler easy writing memories To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically. Arthur Schnitzler practicals sincerity mean 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 gratitude pride opportunity 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 want-to-be-happy care want 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 died creatures Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death. Arthur Schnitzler brother doe sleep Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. Arthur Schnitzler liberty dying death The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions. Arthur Schnitzler principal illusion tasks
