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.

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

God will forgive me. It's his job.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

With sunken head and sadlyShe dreamily waits for the night.

When words leave off, music begins.

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

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.

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

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

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

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.

Mine is a most peaceable disposition.

My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, He will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees.

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

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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