Franz Schubert Quotes

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• My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
• Who can do anything after Beethoven?
• No one feels another’s grief...
• When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems…
• Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
• The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
• I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
• Love is in the air these days, so we thought we'd give a try to make your day a little brighter.
• I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
• The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
• Why does God endow us with compassion?
• No one really understands the grief or joy of another.
• Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
• 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…
• Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
• Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
• 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…
• Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
• 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.
• A man endures misfortune without complaint.

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