Franz Werfel Quotes

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.