Heinrich Heine Quotes

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

Experience, Good, School

God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine

Forgiveness, God, Job

When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine

Music, Words, Off

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
Heinrich Heine

Human, Seen, Talked

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

Women, Character, Rather

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

End, Human, Books

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

Education, Time, Learn

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

Death, Envy, Understand

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine

Science, Cannot, Hungry

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

Good, Best, Death

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

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

Christ, Ride, Rode

God will forgive me; that's his business.
Heinrich Heine

God, Business, Forgive

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Heinrich Heine

Criticism, Values, Praise

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

Another, Difficult, Himself

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

Great, Another, Genius

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

Men, Faith, Great

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

Fight, Times, Ideas

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

Find, Difficult, Common

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

Sea, High, Compass

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

Music, Battle, Before

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
Heinrich Heine

Family, Great, Bible

Atheism is the last word of theism.
Heinrich Heine

Last, Word, Atheism

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

Book, Boredom, Reading

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
Heinrich Heine

Lies, Oh, Kisses

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Poet

Born: December 13, 1797

Died: February 17, 1856

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