340 Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.