Quotes By Heinrich Heine

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

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

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

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

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

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

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

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

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

God will forgive me; that's his business.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

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

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

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

When words leave off, music begins.

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

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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

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