Franz Schubert Quotes

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Franz Schubert

Profession : Composer

Birth : January 31, 1797

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

Franz Schubert

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

Franz Schubert

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

Franz Schubert

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

Franz Schubert

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.

Franz Schubert

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Franz Schubert

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

Franz Schubert

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

Franz Schubert

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.

Franz Schubert

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.

Franz Schubert

Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

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

Franz Schubert

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

Franz Schubert

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.

Franz Schubert

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

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A man endures misfortune without complaint.

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The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

Franz Schubert

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.

Franz Schubert

Why does God endow us with compassion?

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I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

Franz Schubert