340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.