82 Quotes by Frédéric Chopin

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.