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 Quote

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
- Franz Schubert Quote

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
- Franz Schubert Quote

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
- Franz Schubert Quote

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 Quote

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
- Franz Schubert Quote

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 Quote

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
- Franz Schubert Quote

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 Quote

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
- Franz Schubert Quote

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
- Franz Schubert Quote

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.
- Franz Schubert Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Why does God endow us with compassion?
- Franz Schubert Quote

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 Quote