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Quotes by Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

God will pardon me. Its his business.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

When words leave off, music begins.

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

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

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Of course God will forgive me thats His job.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

God will forgive me. Its his job.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”