Quotes from Heinrich Heine
Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
- Heinrich Heine
Where words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
- Heinrich Heine
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
- Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.
- Heinrich Heine
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
- Heinrich Heine
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
- Heinrich Heine
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
- Heinrich Heine
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
- Heinrich Heine
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
- Heinrich Heine
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
- Heinrich Heine