Clouds Quote by Heinrich Heine

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

— Heinrich Heine

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

— Heinrich Heine

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

— Heinrich Heine

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

— Heinrich Heine

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

— 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…

— Heinrich Heine

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I…

— 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

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

— Heinrich Heine

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.

— Heinrich Heine

Thought is invisible nature.

— Heinrich Heine

“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,…

— Heinrich Heine