340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

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

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

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

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

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

Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.