Zweig (German for "twig" or "branch") is the surname of:
- Alan Zweig, Canadian documentary filmmaker
- Arnold Zweig, German writer and pacifist
- George Zweig, American particle physicist and neurobiologist
- Martin Zweig, American stock investor and financial analyst
- Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer
- Stefan Jerzy Zweig, Austrian (formerly Polish) author and camera operator, Holocaust survivor.
- Stefanie Zweig, German writer
- Rabbi Yochanan Zweig, American Rosh Yeshiva
Famous quotes containing the word zweig:
“Fate is never too generous—even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can’t claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don’t have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)