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Franz Schubert [1797-1828] Austrian

Rank: 101
Composer (with music)
Romantic, First Viennese School

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime.

Art, Happiness, Hope, Imagination, Love, Marriage, Morning, Sad, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.	Marriage	101
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.	Love	102
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.	Sad	103
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.	Imagination	104
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?	Art	105
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.		106
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.	Happiness, Truth	107
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.		108
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.	Hope, Morning	109
A man endures misfortune without complaint.		110
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.		111
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.		112
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.		113
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.		114
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.		115
The moment is supreme.		116
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?		117
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.		118
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.		119
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.		120
Why does God endow us with compassion?		121
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.		122
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.		123
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.		124

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