Heinrich Heine Quotes – Insightful Words from a Visionary Poet
Where words leave off, music begins.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
Life is short, and often a cruel jest.
Christianity made love the highest virtue; Plato made it the lowest vice.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
To be misunderstood is to be great.
As long as my gaze is fixed on the enemy, I won’t flinch.
I don’t always possess what I truly deserve, but I deserve everything that happens to me.
It is not difficulties that harm a man, but his knowledge of them.
There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
The source of all genius is madness.
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
Money is the god of our time, and Rothchild is his prophet.
The church is near, but the road is icy. The bar is far, but I will walk carefully.
Art is the divine mistress, who reveals herself more to the unfortunate.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
Only man is capable of inflicting with such terrible cruelty.
I fear not death nor life but eternity.
We should forgive everything, but we must not forget.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical.
The thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler.
In all my excesses and sins, I have always found myself more pure than my accusers.
Do not accept these walls, that prison, that file that marks us, these felon numbers that dehumanize us.
All revolutions devour their own children.
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Every age has its problem, by solving it, we invent progress.
It is not for man to intervene in other people’s lives.
Nature is the art of God.
War memorial arched foot bridge and river bank and cloudy blue sky.
The enemy is the enemy until you drop him.
Am I grateful for my friends? Yes, of course… but nothing else.
It is not necessary to paint your lips red to engage in conversation.
I want to see your wild side.
Forgiveness kindles the soul to a degree where all has disappeared into peace.
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but spiritual joy is eternal.
Morning brings back the heroic ages.
You will die – and rise in beauty. Today you will lose all cares. Today will be the last pain.
I believe in God the Father, and the ‘I’ and the ‘YOU’!
Man cannot live without joy, therefore, when he is deprived of true spiritual joys, it is necessarily replaced by carnal pleasures.
Where charity stands, there is God.
Happier, although with pain, to die, than, without dying, to languish in life.
Do you think the man is the most splendid creation of nature? Which is why I choose male brothels.
The only way to cover one’s own expenses, without being a burden on others, is to marry a woman of greater wealth.
Beauty passes – wisdom remains.
Change is the only constant in life.