Franz Schubert Quotes


"The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Manager, Act)

"The moment is supreme."
- 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
(Related: Happiness, Truth)

"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Heart, Light, Mind)

"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Fool, Man, Misfortune, Unhappiness)

"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Joy, Sorrow)

"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Mind)

"Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Wife, Friend, Man)

"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
(Related: Devotion, Force)

"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: God)

"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
(Related: Impulses, Man)

"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
(Related: Garden)

"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Hope, Bed, Grief, May, Night)

"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
(Related: People, Grief, Joy, Reality)

"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
(Related: Love, Sorrow)

"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Approval, Blame, Will, World)

"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
(Related: Poor)

"The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Man, World)

"A man endures misfortune without complaint."
- Franz Schubert
(Related: Complaint, Man, Misfortune)

"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
(Related: Girls, Living)

"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
(Related: Art)

"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
(Related: Idea, Fantasy, Treatment)

"Why does God endow us with compassion?"
- Franz Schubert
(Related: God, Compassion)