Words matter. These are the best Franz Schubert Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
The moment is supreme.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Why does God endow us with compassion?
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.
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
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.
Why does God endow us with compassion?
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
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.
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
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?
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
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.
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.
Nobody understands another’s sorrow, and nobody another’s joy.
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
