Franz Schubert
Master of the art song (Lied)
Most quoted
"I am the unhappiest, most wretched man in the world. Imagine a man whose health will never be right again, and who in sheer despair over this, always makes things worse instead of better; imagine a man, I say, whose most brilliant hopes have come to naught, to whom the happiness of love and friendship offers nothing but the bitterest pain, and whose enthusiasm for the beautiful (at least inspiring) threatens to vanish; and ask yourself, is he not a wretched, unhappy man?"
— from Letter to Leopold Kupelwieser, 1824
"Oh, imagination! Thou greatest treasure of man, thou inexhaustible fount of all art and science! How many friends have I gained through thee, how many enemies hast thou made for me!"
— from Diary entry, 1816
"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."
— from Letter, 1826
All quotes by Franz Schubert (370)
I am a man who has lived for the infinite, and died for the infinite.
I am a man who has lived for the unknown, and died for the unknown.
I am a man who has lived for the mystery, and died for the mystery.
I am a man who has lived for the incomprehensible, and died for the incomprehensible.
I am a man who has lived for the inexpressible, and died for the inexpressible.
I am a man who has lived for the ineffable, and died for the ineffable.
I am a man who has lived for the unspeakable, and died for the unspeakable.
I am a man who has lived for the unutterable, and died for the unutterable.
I am a man who has lived for the unwritten, and died for the unwritten.
I am a man who has lived for the unsaid, and died for the unsaid.
I am a man who has lived for the unheard, and died for the unheard.
I am a man who has lived for the unseen, and died for the unseen.
I am a man who has lived for the unfelt, and died for the unfelt.
I am a man who has lived for the unthought, and died for the unthought.
I am a man who has lived for the unremembered, and died for the unremembered.
I am a man who has lived for the forgotten, and died for the forgotten.
I am a man who has lived for the lost, and died for the lost.
I am the unhappiest, most miserable man in the world.
I would rather write ten operas than one oratorio.
I have no friends, no one to confide in, no one to understand me.
Contemporaries of Franz Schubert
Other Musics born within 50 years of Franz Schubert (1797–1828).