340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

Where they would burn books, they would burn people.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.

Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.