Heinrich Heine Quotes
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The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
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The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.
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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.
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I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
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I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.
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Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.
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Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
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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.
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The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered.
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Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.
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Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
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Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.
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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!
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There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.
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I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.
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On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.
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This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
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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.
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High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.
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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.
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The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.
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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...
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The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
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I live, which is the main point.
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All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
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Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.
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The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
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