Quotes of Heinrich Heine - somelinesforyou

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- 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

“ Where words leave off, music begins. ”

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

“ Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. ”

- 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

“ A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein, Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg, Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg. Es hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht; Es hat mich schon längst um den Schlaf gebracht. Ach! sputet Euch, Meister Zimmermann, Damit ich balde schlafen kann. ”

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Heinrich Heine

“ Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor) ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor) ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. ”

- 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

“ He only profits from praise who values criticism. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ God will pardon me. It's his business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ God will forgive me. That's his business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ God will forgive me, that is His business. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Mark this well, you proud men of action! You are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender. ”

- Heinrich Heine
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