Quotes by Heinrich Heine
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
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.
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)
God will forgive me. It's his job.
Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still 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 still the flow of my tears streams on.
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.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
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.
Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)
INCEST: A game the whole family can play.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
