Franz Schubert Quotes

I want you for always ... days, years, eternities.

The moment is supreme.

It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves ... only in this moment is passion truly understood

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love. . . . Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.

Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

Love is in the air these days, so we thought we'd give a try to make your day a little brighter.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy ... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world.