Ludwig Van Beethoven quotes and words of wisdom

"Friends applaud, the Comedy is over."
Found in the topic Last.

"My angel, my all, my very self ... 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 ? I can live only wholly with you or not at all ... Be calm ? love me ? today ? yesterday ? what tearful longings for you ? you ? you ? my life ? my all ? farewell. Oh continue to love ? never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Music is a revelation; a revelation loftier than all wisdom and all philosophy."
Found in the topic Music.

"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
Found in the topic Virtue.

Interesting Quotes

The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald - US novelist (1896 - 1940)

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.Timothy Leary - US psychologist & promoter of mind-altering drugs (1920 - 1996)