Best 12 quotes of Franz Werfel on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Could the cosmos possibly have a face with a horribly receding forehead and with cannibalistic jaws?

Every man and every nation at one time or other becomes the weak. That's why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent. (p581)

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

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

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