To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

- Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

- Arthur Schnitzler

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

- Arthur Schnitzler

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

- Arthur Schnitzler

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 …

- Arthur Schnitzler

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

- 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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

- Arthur Schnitzler

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

- Arthur Schnitzler