340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels...

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me...

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.