340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

God will forgive me; that's his business.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

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

With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.

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