Quotes from Heinrich Heine

Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit

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."

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

Where words leave off, music begins.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

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

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

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

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

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." (Almansor)

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

I live, which is the main point.

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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