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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.
Franz Schubert
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
Franz Schubert
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Franz Schubert
There is no such thing as happy music.
Franz Schubert
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Franz Schubert
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
Franz Schubert
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
Franz Schubert
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
Franz Schubert
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
Franz Schubert
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Franz Schubert
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
Franz Schubert
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
Franz Schubert
Why does God endow us with compassion?
Franz Schubert
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
Franz Schubert
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?
Franz Schubert
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
Franz Schubert
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
Franz Schubert
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.
Franz Schubert
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
Franz Schubert
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
Franz Schubert
What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!
Franz Schubert
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