Jeremias, höret die Stimme Quotes

“The deeds of our hearts too...are not without their progeny.

[Jeremiah, to Ebed-melech]”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“The latter class [peasants] is always unaffected by the course of historic events. Like cats who are attached to a house and not to the people who dwell in it, the poorer type of peasant belongs less to the nation than to the soil. Therefore, however numerous they are, they never constitute a danger for a conqueror.”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“That which serves life is the business of women.

[Jeremiah, to Queen Maacha]”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“He [Jeremiah] felt all at one overwhelmed by the greatest gift that God can grant to a human being -- another human being. The world might rush to the abyss and nothing stay its course, but for him and his bride there was room enough on the edge of the precipice to build a house and live in it in peace. He could not prevent the downfall of Israel without being shattered himself...but he and Zenua could turn two hearts towards the Lord in their own house. amidst the general collapse they could continue to serve the Lord and listen with ears that would grow ever more attuned. Was this not enough for one of God's dreamers who had not been equipped with the toughness necessary for a fighter?”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“In the fawning soul of the mob everything is justified by the victorious employment of force. It transfigures treachery, desertion, murder, lying, and any kind of rascality, turning them into wholesome necessities which the servile people accept and swiftly forget as a child does a bitter medicine.”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“Ignominy has always been the younger sister of misfortune.”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“...only those minds can be convinced of the truth which are themselves capable of sharing in its lofty quality.”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme