Heinrich Heine Quotes

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

~ Heinrich Heine

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.

~ Heinrich Heine

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

~ Heinrich Heine

Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein,Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.Es hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht;Es hat mich schon längst um den Schlaf gebracht.Ach! sputet Euch, Meister Zimmermann,Damit ich balde schlafen kann.

~ Heinrich Heine

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

~ Heinrich Heine

First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how.

~ Heinrich Heine

A pine tree standeth lonelyIn the North on an upland bare;It standeth whitely shroudedWith snow, and sleepeth there.It dreameth of a Palm treeWhich far in the East alone,In the mournful silence standethOn its ridge of burning stone.

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ 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

Where words leave off, music begins.

~ Heinrich Heine

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

~ Heinrich Heine

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

~ Heinrich Heine

He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason... In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.

~ Heinrich Heine

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

~ Heinrich Heine

I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in proud indifference.Now, when my grave is dug, they taunt me; Now, when I'm sick to death in pain, In mocking torment still they haunt me, Those fragrant blooms of my disdain.

~ Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. That's his business.

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

God will pardon me. It's his business.

~ Heinrich Heine

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

~ Heinrich Heine

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins.

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

~ Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. It's his job.

~ Heinrich Heine

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

~ Heinrich Heine

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

~ Heinrich Heine