Franz Werfel Quotes

Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh , a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian Genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette , a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. September 1890 – 26. August 1945
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Famous Franz Werfel Quotes

“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.”

Franz Werfel

As quoted in Philippine Studies (1953) by Ateneo de Manila, p. 269; also in Everest : The Mountaineering History (2000) by Walt Unsworth, p. 100; but this has also been attributed to Ignatius of Loyola in Think of an Elephant : Combining Science and Spirituality for a Better Life (2007) by Paul Bailey http://books.google.com/books?id=1WWeHgqLoBkC&amp;pg=PT299&amp;dq=%22For+those+who+believe,+no+words+are+necessary%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=LiGzUor6FdapsASYsYGgBA&amp;ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22For%20those%20who%20believe%2C%20no%20words%20are%20necessary%22&amp;f=false <br class="br">Disputed

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

Franz Werfel book Jacobowsky und der Oberst

Zwischen zu früh und zu spät, liegt immer nur ein Augenblick.
Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten (1945), p. 52

“The safest wealth is the poverty of needs.”

Franz Werfel

Der sicherste Reichtum ist die Armut an Bedürfnissen.
Zwischen oben und unten (1946), p. 315

“Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.”

Franz Werfel

Preface to Das Lied Von Bernadette [The Song of Bernadette] (1941)

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

Franz Werfel

As quoted in Journey to New Beginnings : Finding Peace Within (2006) by Debbie Ziemann, p. 167

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