Night Quotes by Heinrich Heine

12 Night quotes by Heinrich Heine

When the day fades, Heine’s words turn to the hush of darkness. This modest selection captures his bittersweet musings on night, giving a quick yet resonant taste of his lyrical mood.

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

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Thinking of Germany in the night robs me of my sleep.

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The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them…

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In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my…

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The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.

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

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Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain;— These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain.…

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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,…

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In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he…

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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,…

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At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire…

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Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay…

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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…

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

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Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are…

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A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

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Thought is invisible nature.

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“Still is the night, it quiets the streets down, In that window my love would appear; She's long since gone away from this town,…

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The dragon-fly is dancing,— Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire…

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There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

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He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

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