Heinrich Heine Quotes

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

— Heinrich Heine

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

— Heinrich Heine

“The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.”

— 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

With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

— Heinrich Heine

“God will pardon me..that's His line of work.
last words of Heinrich Heine”

— Heinrich Heine

“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.”

— 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

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

— Heinrich Heine

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— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

“God will forgive me. It's his job.”

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”

— Heinrich Heine

“The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

“I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.”

— Heinrich Heine

“Atheism is the last word of theism.”

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

“Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.”

— Heinrich Heine

“Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.”

— 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

“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 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

“God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.”

— Heinrich Heine

Where words cease, there music begins.

— Heinrich Heine

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.

— Heinrich Heine

“Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.”

— Heinrich Heine

“The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.”

— Heinrich Heine

“The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.”

— Heinrich Heine

“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.”

— Heinrich Heine

“What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred.”

— Heinrich Heine

Man,
the aristocrat amongst the animals.

— Heinrich Heine

“I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!”

— Heinrich Heine

“There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.”

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

— Heinrich Heine

“With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,
A thousand times hovering round;
But round himself, all tender like gold,
The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.”

— Heinrich Heine

God will pardon me. It is His trade.

— 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

“I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.”

— Heinrich Heine

“The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender ...”

— Heinrich Heine

“High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars ... high over the stars sweep the angels ...”

— Heinrich Heine

“The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun ...”

— Heinrich Heine

“Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.”

— Heinrich Heine

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

— Heinrich Heine

Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity ...

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine