Chopin's Letters Quotes

“how dismal it is to have no one to go to in the morning to share one’s griefs and joys; how hateful when something weighs on you and there’s nowhere to lay it down. You know to what I refer. I often tell to my pianoforte what I want to tell to you.”
― Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;”
― Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters

“So, having dried my tear-swollen eyelids, I take up my pen to inquire of you, are you alive or did you die? If you are dead, please let me know, and I will tell the cook, for ever since she heard about it she has been saying her prayers.”
― Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters

“Youth is an obligation; that is to say, you have an absolute duty to be happy and to preserve a good memory of yourself for one who loves you.”
― Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters

“One can’t have everything in this world; be content with the greatest of joys: health.”
― Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters

“You know how easily things grow out of nothing, when they pass through a mouth that smears them all over and makes something else out of them—”
― Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters