Franz Schubert Quotes & Sayings

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. — Franz Schubert

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

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

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

Why does God endow us with compassion? — Franz Schubert

There is no such thing as happy music. — 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

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

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. — Franz Schubert

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

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

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

What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart! — Franz Schubert

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

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

With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. — Franz Schubert

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert

The moment is supreme. — Franz Schubert

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 — Franz Schubert

I want you for always ... days, years, eternities. — Franz Schubert

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

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

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

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. — Franz Schubert

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

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. — Franz Schubert

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

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

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. — Franz Schubert

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy. — Franz Schubert

A man endures misfortune without complaint. — 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