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

Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey. — Eduard Heine

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. — Heinrich Heine

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below. — Heinrich Heine

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. — Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins. — Heinrich Heine

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. — Heinrich Heine

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. — Heinrich Heine

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind. — Heinrich Heine

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man. — Heinrich Heine

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country ... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it. — Heinrich Heine

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. — Heinrich Heine

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet. — Heinrich Heine

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. — Heinrich Heine

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy
death. — Heinrich Heine

What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred. — Heinrich Heine

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. — Heinrich Heine

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. — Heinrich Heine

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love. — Heinrich Heine

The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood. — Heinrich Heine

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress. — Heinrich Heine

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? — Heinrich Heine

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by. — Heinrich Heine

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

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. — Heinrich Heine

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. — Heinrich Heine

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle — Heinrich Heine

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people — Heinrich Heine

Oh, what lies there are in kisses. — Heinrich Heine

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress. — Heinrich Heine

Iron helmets will not save/
Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day. — Heinrich Heine

I live, which is the main point. — Heinrich Heine

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

God will forgive me. It's his job. — Heinrich Heine

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine

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. — Heinrich Heine

First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how. — Heinrich Heine

So we keep asking, over and over
Until a handful of earth
Stops our mouths-
But is that an answer? — Heinrich Heine

Thought is invisible nature. — Heinrich Heine

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. — Heinrich Heine

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time. — Heinrich Heine

Silence is the essential condition of happiness. — Heinrich Heine

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me ... — Heinrich Heine

Here all may see my body lie/ But not my soul, for that can fly! — Helme Heine

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

Where words leave off, music begins. — Heinrich Heine

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. — Heinrich Heine

I have sown Dragon's teeth and reaped only fleas. — 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. — Heinrich Heine

Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha. — Heinrich Heine

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. — Heinrich Heine

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. — Heinrich Heine

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid — Heinrich Heine

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses. — Heinrich Heine

Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
Foolish words and empty story. — Heinrich Heine

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea. — Heinrich Heine

Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman — Heinrich Heine

If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover. — Heinrich Heine

He only profits from praise who values criticism. — Heinrich Heine

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything. — Heinrich Heine

And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. — Heinrich Heine

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky. — Heinrich Heine

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. — Heinrich Heine

But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams. — Heinrich Heine

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle. — Heinrich Heine

The night comes stealing o'er me,
And clouds are on the sea;
While the wavelets rustle before me
With a mystical melody. — Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me; that's his business. — Heinrich Heine

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide,
I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide. — Heinrich Heine

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. — Heinrich Heine

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too. — Heinrich Heine

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail. — Heinrich Heine

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. — Heinrich Heine

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned. — Heinrich Heine

Don't send a poet to London. — Heinrich Heine

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job. — Heinrich Heine

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume. — Heinrich Heine

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. — Heinrich Heine

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. — Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day. — Heinrich Heine

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. — Heinrich Heine

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. — Heinrich Heine

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. — Heinrich Heine

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it - but I did I bear it. The question remains: how? — Heinrich Heine

Ask me not what I have, but what I am. — Heinrich Heine

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself. — Heinrich Heine

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent. — Heinrich Heine

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. — Heinrich Heine

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses. — Heinrich Heine

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious. — Heinrich Heine

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work. — Heinrich Heine

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. — Heinrich Heine

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people. — Heinrich Heine

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. — Heinrich Heine

God will pardon: That's His business. — Heinrich Heine

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. — Heinrich Heine

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair. — Heinrich Heine

God will pardon me. It is His trade. — Heinrich Heine

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play. — Heinrich Heine

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues. — Heinrich Heine