340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

That was only the beginning – where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel – and all of them are right.

You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world’s goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they are, besides, anxious to appear wealthier than they really are.

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?

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad.

And once again we plighted our troth, And titter’d, caress’d, kiss’d so dearly.

The nightingale appear’d the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

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

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.