Top 180 Heinrich Heine Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Thought is invisible nature.”

— Heinrich Heine

52. “I live, which is the main point.”

— Heinrich Heine

53. “Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.”

— Heinrich Heine

54. “Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.”

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55. “If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.”

— Heinrich Heine

56. “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.”

— Heinrich Heine

57. “First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.”

— Heinrich Heine

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58. “My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.”

— Heinrich Heine

59. “Good Luck is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn; She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you quickly, and is gone.”

— Heinrich Heine

60. “With the rose the butterfly’s deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun’s sweet ray is hovering found.”

— Heinrich Heine

61. “Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.”

— Heinrich Heine

62. “Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.”

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63. “The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad.”

— Heinrich Heine

64. “I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.”

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65. “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.”

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66. “A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.”

— Heinrich Heine

67. “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.”

— Heinrich Heine

68. “At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it – but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?”

— Heinrich Heine

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69. “Woman is at once apple and serpent.”

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70. “We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.”

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71. “In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.”

— Heinrich Heine

72. “I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.”

— Heinrich Heine

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73. “I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!”

— Heinrich Heine

74. “Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity...”

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75. “The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.”

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76. “Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.”

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77. “Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.”

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78. “He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.”

— Heinrich Heine

79. “While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.”

— Heinrich Heine

80. “The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.”

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81. “The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.”

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

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83. “People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.”

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84. “If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.”

— Heinrich Heine

85. “It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.”

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86. “Atheism is the last word of theism.”

— Heinrich Heine

87. “In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.”

— Heinrich Heine

88. “The spring’s already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.”

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89. “The sun’s sweet ray is hovering discovered.”

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90. “Man, – the aristocrat amongst the animals.”

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91. “Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.”

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92. “The night comes stealing o’er me, And clouds are on the sea; While the wavelets rustle before me With a mystical melody.”

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93. “Every woman is the gift of a world to me.”

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94. “All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.”

— Heinrich Heine

95. “The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.”

— Heinrich Heine

96. “No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.”

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97. “A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.”

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98. “The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”

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99. “He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.”

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100. “Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.”

— Heinrich Heine