Franz Schubert

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.

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.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

There is no such thing as happy music.