Heinrich Heine Quotes

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.

The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

Where words leave off, music begins.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.

Don't send a poet to London.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

I live, which is the main point.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?