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I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
— Heinrich Heine
Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey.
— Eduard Heine
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
— Heinrich Heine
The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.
— Heinrich Heine
When words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.
— Heinrich Heine
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
— Heinrich Heine
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
— Heinrich Heine
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
— Heinrich Heine
All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country ... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.
— Heinrich Heine
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.
— Heinrich Heine
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
— Heinrich Heine
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemydeath. — Heinrich Heine
What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred.
— Heinrich Heine
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
— Heinrich Heine
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
— Heinrich Heine
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
— Heinrich Heine
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
— Heinrich Heine
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
— Heinrich Heine
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
— Heinrich Heine
In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.
— Heinrich Heine
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
— Heinrich Heine
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
— Heinrich Heine
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.
— Heinrich Heine
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
— Heinrich Heine
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
— Heinrich Heine
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
— Heinrich Heine
The lotus flower is troubledAt the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night. — Heinrich Heine
I live, which is the main point.
— Heinrich Heine
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
— Heinrich Heine
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
— Heinrich Heine
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
— Heinrich Heine
Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.
— Heinrich Heine
Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day. — Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me. It's his job.
— Heinrich Heine
Thought is invisible nature.
— Heinrich Heine
There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.
— Heinrich Heine
Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.
— Heinrich Heine
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
— Heinrich Heine
The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me ...
— Heinrich Heine
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
— Heinrich Heine
Where words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
I have sown Dragon's teeth and reaped only fleas.
— Heinrich Heine
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.
— Heinrich Heine
Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.
— Heinrich Heine
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.
— Heinrich Heine
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.
— Heinrich Heine
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
— Heinrich Heine
Graves they say are warm'd by glory;Foolish words and empty story. — Heinrich Heine
Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.
— Heinrich Heine
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman
— Heinrich Heine
If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.
— Heinrich Heine
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
— Heinrich Heine
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.
— Heinrich Heine
The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.
— Heinrich Heine
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.
— Heinrich Heine
But that age ... exerts on usAn almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams. — Heinrich Heine
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
— Heinrich Heine
The night comes stealing o'er me,And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody. — Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me; that's his business.
— Heinrich Heine
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide. — Heinrich Heine
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
— Heinrich Heine
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
— Heinrich Heine
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
— Heinrich Heine
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
— Heinrich Heine
Don't send a poet to London.
— Heinrich Heine
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
— Heinrich Heine
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
— Heinrich Heine
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
— Heinrich Heine
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.
— Heinrich Heine
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.
— Heinrich Heine
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.
— Heinrich Heine
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
— Heinrich Heine
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.
— Heinrich Heine
At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?
— Heinrich Heine
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
— Heinrich Heine
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
— Heinrich Heine
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
— Heinrich Heine
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
— Heinrich Heine
In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
— Heinrich Heine
There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.
— Heinrich Heine
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.
— Heinrich Heine
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
— Heinrich Heine
Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.
— Heinrich Heine
God will pardon: That's His business.
— Heinrich Heine
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.
— Heinrich Heine
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
— Heinrich Heine
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
— Heinrich Heine
