46 Quotes by Franz Schubert

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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?

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

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

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