340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."(Almansor)

Where words leave off, music begins.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.

I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in proud indifference. Now, when my grave is dug, they taunt me; Now, when I'm sick to death in pain, In mocking torment still they haunt me, Those fragrant blooms of my disdain.

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.