Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
Arthur SchnitzlerNo specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Arthur SchnitzlerMost 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 SchnitzlerMartyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler