Heinrich Heine Quotes

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

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

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

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

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

When words leave off, music begins.

The lotus flower is troubledAt the sun's resplendent light;

With sunken head and sadlyShe dreamily waits for the night.

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave;I awoke, and the tearsstill poured down my cheeks.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you had left me;I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you were still kind to me;I awoke, and stillthe flow of my tears streams on.

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

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

In the marvellous month of May when all the buds were bursting,then in my heart didlove arise.In the marvellous month of Maywhen all the birds were singing,then did I reveal to hermy yearning and longing.

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.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

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

Where words cease, there music begins.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

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.

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

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night;

they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

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

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness;

there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

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

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

Good Luck is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn;

She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you quickly, and is gone.