Top 15 Heinrich Heine Quotes

Where words leave off, music begins.

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

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

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies — but not before they have been hanged.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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

Lo, sleep is good, better is death — in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

"Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."

(Almansor)

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.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

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