Heinrich Heine Quotes About Heart
-
As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.
→ -
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...
→ -
In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.
→ -
My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
→ -
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.
→ -
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
→ -
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.
→ -
Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.
→ -
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.
→ -
But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.
→ -
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
→ -
The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.
→ -
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
→ -
I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
→ -
Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.
→
Related Authors
-
Kurt Tucholsky Journalist -
Theodor Fontane Novelist -
Rainer Maria Rilke Poet -
Hermann Hesse Poet -
Giacomo Leopardi Poet -
Karl Marx Philosopher -
Thomas Mann Novelist -
Felix Mendelssohn Composer -
Heinrich von Kleist Poet -
Heinrich Böll Writer -
Bertolt Brecht Poet -
Friedrich Holderlin Poet -
Friedrich Schiller Poet -
Lord Byron Baron Byron -
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Writer -
Georg Buchner Dramatist -
E. T. A. Hoffmann Author -
Robert Schumann Composer -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer -
Novalis Poet