Ludwig van Beethoven > Quotes

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us ...

Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits ...

No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves ... Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men ...

My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once ...

Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

Ever thine,

Ever mine,
Ever ours.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven, Letters of Beethover

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“To play without passion is inexcusable!”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Good Morning, on July 7

My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all-
Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever Thine
Ever Mine
Ever Yours”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“ever thine, ever mine, ever ours”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“I shall seize fate by the throat.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“I love a tree more than a man.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Oh continue to love me -
never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

ever thine
ever mine
ever ours”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Beethoven can write music, thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. ”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...
[on his death bed]”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Go on; don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets, art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“„Не съществува друго качество за надмощие освен добротата.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“schon im Bette drängen sich die Ideen zu dir meine Unsterbliche Geliebte, hier und da freudig, dann wieder traurig. Vom Schicksaale abwartend, ob es unß erhört...”
― Ludwig van Beethoven