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Franz Schubert
Austrian
Composer
About the author
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Imagination
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Act
#Manager
The moment is supreme.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Truth
#Happiness
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Heart
#Light
#Mind
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Man
#Misfortune
#Fool
#Unhappiness
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Sorrow
#Joy
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Mind
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Wife
#Man
#Friend
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Force
#Devotion
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#God
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Man
#Impulses
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Garden
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Hope
#May
#Night
#Grief
#Bed
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,
Austrian
Composer
#People
#Reality
#Grief
#Joy
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Love
#Sorrow
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Will
#World
#Blame
#Approval
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Poor
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#World
#Man
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Man
#Misfortune
#Complaint
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Living
#Girls
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?
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#Art
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,
Austrian
Composer
#Idea
#Fantasy
#Treatment
Why does God endow us with compassion?
Franz Schubert,
Austrian
Composer
#God
#Compassion