Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)


Heinrich Heine -
- Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

Heinrich Heine -
- I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

Heinrich Heine -
- When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

Heinrich Heine -
- Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine -
- The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

Heinrich Heine -
- Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine -
- There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Heinrich Heine -
- Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Heinrich Heine -
- He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Heinrich Heine -
- The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Heinrich Heine -
- Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Heinrich Heine - From his play Almansor (1821)
- Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man B?cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)

Heinrich Heine -
- The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.