Heinrich Heine Quotes

He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. But a great man will never so far contradict his own feelings as to see, or, it may be, increase, with cold-blooded indifference, the misfortunes of his fellow country-men.

Какво е любовта – зъбобол на сърцето.

Von allen Welten, die der Mensch erschaffen hat, ist die der Bücher die Gewaltigste.

Όπου καίνε βιβλία, σύντομα θα κάψουν και ανθρώπους!

Die Menschen in jener alten Zeit hatten Überzeugungen, wir Neueren haben nur Meinungen, und es gehört etwas mehr als eine bloße Meinung dazu, um so einen gotischen Dom aufzurichten.

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.

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

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

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.

Je hebt parels en diamanten
hebt alles wat je hartje begeert.
En óók nog de mooiste ogen.
M'n liefje wat wil je nog meer?

En op die aandoenlijke ogen
schreef ik een lied, keer op keer.
Een vlucht van gevleugelde woorden.
M'n liefje wat wil je nog meer?

Maar die 'aandoenlijke' ogen
op mij, ze deden zó'n zeer
dat jij me te gronde gericht hebt.
M'n liefje wat wil je nog meer?

(Seth Gaaikema)

Fragt Sie jemand wie ich mich hier befinde, so sagen Sie: wie ein Fisch im Wasser. Oder vielmehr, sagen Sie den Leuten; daß, wenn im Meere ein Fisch den anderen nach seinem Befinden fragt, so antworte dieser: ich befinde mich wie Heine in Paris.

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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

You're lovely as a flower,
So pure and fair to see;
I look at you, and sadness
Comes stealing over me.

This was but a prelude;
where books are burnt
human-beings will be burnt
in the end