The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

- Franz Schubert

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

- Franz Schubert

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

- Franz Schubert

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

- Franz Schubert

It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them…

- Franz Schubert

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

- Franz Schubert

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

- 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.

- Franz Schubert

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

- Franz Schubert