96 Quotes by Gustav Mahler

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

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

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.