# Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

- Author: [Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/twenty-four-hours-in-the-life-of-a-woman

## Quotes

> Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

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> Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

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> Gratitude is a rare frame of mind; and those who are grateful can seldom find a way to express what they feel. They are overwhelmed by silence; are shamefaced; and, sometimes, actually try to hide their feelings.

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> As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.

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> Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

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> To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

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> Gratitude fills us with rejoicing, for it so rarely finds frank expression; delicacy of feeling warms our hearts.

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> For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

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> In times of exceptional stress, nature will often give people's behavior so tragical a complexion that neither a picture nor a verbal description is competent to represent its titanic energy.

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> Most people have very little imagination. They are hardly moved by anything which does not directly touch them, which does not positively hammer its message upon their senses; but even a trifle, should it happen under their very eyes, and within the immediate range of their feelings, will instantly kindle in them a disproportionate amount of passion. We may say that the rarity of their interest is compensated by an inappropriate and exaggerated vehemence when their interest is at last aroused.

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