Quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Wherever you are, I am there also.

I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

I love a tree more than a man.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .