Heinrich Heine
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.Collection: Wedding
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.Collection: Wedding
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.Collection: Death
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.Collection: Experience
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Collection: Death
I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.Collection: Women
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.Collection: Science
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.Collection: Great
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.Collection: Religion
God will forgive me. It's his job.Collection: God
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.Collection: Education
When words leave off, music begins.Collection: Music
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.Collection: Death
Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.Collection: God
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Atheism is the last word of theism.
Ask me not what I have, but what I am.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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.
Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
God will forgive me; that's his business.
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
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.Collection: Country
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.Collection: Truth
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.Collection: Past
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hangedCollection: Life
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.Collection: Silence
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.Collection: Dog
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.Collection: Dark