Heinrich Heine Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.
Good Luck is a giddy maid,
Fickle and restless as a fawn;
She smooths your hair; and then the jade
Kisses you quickly, and is gone.
Fickle and restless as a fawn;
She smooths your hair; and then the jade
Kisses you quickly, and is gone.
In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy
death.
death.
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.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.
The night comes stealing o'er me,
And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody.
And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody.
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
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.
There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.
As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.
The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me ...
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?