96 Quotes by Gustav Mahler

Man lives in greatest pain.

Don’t bother looking at the view – I have already composed it.

I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish.

It’s not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles.

Don’t bother to look, I’ve composed all this already.

I have become a different person. I don’t know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

But it’s peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.