46 Quotes by Franz Schubert

There is no such thing as happy music.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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