Frederic Chopin Quotes:
Ocupation: Composer
Life: d. October 17, 1849
Birthday: d. October 17
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness...
source: Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation
topic: Dream, Sweet, Gay, Absent Mindedness, Sleeplessness
