Quotes from 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

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

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.

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

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?