340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

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

Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press’d; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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