Famous Heinrich Heine Quotations

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"There are more fools in the world than there are people."
by Heinrich Heine
"We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first."
by Heinrich Heine
"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."
by Heinrich Heine
"God will forgive me. It's his job."
by Heinrich Heine
"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."
by Heinrich Heine
"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."
by Heinrich Heine
"Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)"
by Heinrich Heine
"He only profits from praise who values criticism."
by Heinrich Heine
"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith."
by Heinrich Heine
"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
by Heinrich Heine
"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 all."
by Heinrich Heine
"Oh, what lies there are in kisses!"
by Heinrich Heine
"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
by Heinrich Heine
"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid."
by Heinrich Heine
"She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin."
by Heinrich Heine
"Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent."
by Heinrich Heine
"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."
by Heinrich Heine
"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough."
by Heinrich Heine
"The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit"
by Heinrich Heine
"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle."
by Heinrich Heine
"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."
by Heinrich Heine
"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."
by Heinrich Heine
"When books are burned in the end people will be burned too."
by Heinrich Heine
"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."
by Heinrich Heine
"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people."
by Heinrich Heine
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)"
by Heinrich Heine
"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."
by Heinrich Heine
"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."
by Heinrich Heine
"The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night."
by Heinrich Heine
"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."
by Heinrich Heine
"God will pardon me. It is his trade."
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"Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented."
by Heinrich Heine
"In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable."
by Heinrich Heine
"Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people."
by Heinrich Heine


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