Franz Schubert Quotes

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

~ Franz Schubert

With a heart filled with endless love for those who scorned me, I wandered far away. For many and many a year I sang songs. Whenever I tried to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love.

~ 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

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

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

~ Franz Schubert

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

~ Franz Schubert

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

~ Franz Schubert