Quotes by Heinrich Heine

About Heinrich Heine:

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered part of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities. Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
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Fatal ist mir das Lumpenpack, Das, um die Herzen zu rühren, Den Patriotismus trägt zur Schau Mit allen seinen Geschwüren.

Heinrich Heine

Im Kopfe trage ich Bijouterien, Der Zukunft Krondiamanten, Die Tempelkleinodien des neuen Gotts, Des grossen Unbekannten.

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

Heinrich Heine

The German Censors —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— —— ...

Heinrich Heine

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

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Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; - Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein, Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg, Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg. Es hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht; Es hat mich schon längst um...

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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

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God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me; that's his business.

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

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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Heinrich Heine

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

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

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

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Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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

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

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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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Author Bio

  • NameHeinrich Heine
  • DescriptionGerman poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
  • AliasesHeinrich Heine; Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
  • BornDecember 13, 1798
  • DiedFebruary 17, 1856
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Journalist; Literary Critic; Opinion Journalist
  • WorksGermany. A Winter's Tale;