Heinrich Heine

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

— Heinrich Heine

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

— Heinrich Heine

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.”

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Good Luck is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn; She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you…

— Heinrich Heine

Where words leave off, music begins.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— 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

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

— Heinrich Heine

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our…

— Heinrich Heine

“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in…

— Heinrich Heine

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

— Heinrich Heine

Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he…

— 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

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

— Heinrich Heine

But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my…

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo.…

— Heinrich Heine

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

— Heinrich Heine

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

— Heinrich Heine

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set…

— Heinrich Heine

Atheism is the last word of theism

— Heinrich Heine

“Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.”

— Heinrich Heine