Besides, ghost-stories are even more blood-curdling if you … - Heinrich Heine

" "
Besides, ghost-stories are even more blood-curdling if you are reading them on a journey, especially at night, in a town, in a house, in a room where you have never been before. How many horrific events may already have taken place on the very spot where you are lying? — that is what you cannot help wondering.

Heinrich Heine

Die Harzreise · August 1, 2012 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

English

Collect this quote

About Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Christian Johann Heinrich Heine • Christian Heine • Christian Johann Heinrich "Harry" Heine • Heine

All quotes from Heinrich Heine Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Heinrich Heine:

William Shakespeare Victor Hugo William Blake W. H. Auden Lord Byron

Additional quotes by Heinrich Heine

Das Fräulein stand am Meere
Und seufzte lang und bang,
Es rührte sie so sehre
Der Sonnenuntergang.

Mein Fräulein! sein Sie munter,
Das ist ein altes Stück;
Hier vorne geht sie unter
Und kehrt von hinten zurück.

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

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

Besides, ghost-stories are even more blood-curdling if you are reading them on a journey, especially at night, in a town, in a house, in a room where… - Heinrich Heine

About Heinrich Heine

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Heinrich Heine