Franz Schubert Quotes

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

Marriage, Happy, True

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

Angry, Poor, Above

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

Hope, Morning, May

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
Franz Schubert

Blame, Follow, Approval

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

Reality, Joy, Another

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

Sad, Joy, Another

A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Franz Schubert

Misfortune, Complaint, Endures

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

Act, Players, Manager

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

Mind, Heart, Light

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

Love, Sorrow, Sing

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

God, Done, Simply

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

True, Real, Inspired

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

Mind, Touch, Nobody

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?
Franz Schubert

Art, Call, Horn

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

Live, House, Fine

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

Wise, Fool, Greatest

The moment is supreme.
Franz Schubert

Moment, Supreme

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

Playing, Stage, Resembles

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

Good, Busy, Living

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

Two, Contrary, Eccentric

Why does God endow us with compassion?
Franz Schubert

God, Why, Compassion

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?
Franz Schubert

Him, Different, Why

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

Happiness, Truth, Happy

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Born: January 31, 1797

Died: November 19, 1828

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