Quotes By Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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.

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