Top 180 Heinrich Heine Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.”

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102. “Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”

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103. “Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle.”

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104. “Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.”

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105. “The nightingale appear’d the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.”

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106. “And once again we plighted our troth, And titter’d, caress’d, kiss’d so dearly.”

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107. “There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.”

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108. “Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.”

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109. “Oh, what lies there are in kisses.”

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110. “As the moon’s fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent peaceful motion.”

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111. “Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.”

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112. “Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman.”

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

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

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115. “Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.”

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116. “The cloudlets are lazily sailing O’er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o’er me...”

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117. “One must, it is true, forgive one’s enemies – but not before they have been hanged.”

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

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

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

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121. “The beauteous eyes of the spring’s fair night With comfort are downward gazing.”

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122. “All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.”

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123. “Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press’d; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.”

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

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

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126. “Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions? The essence of music is revelation.”

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127. “Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven’s blue o’er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.”

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128. “The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.”

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129. “Don’t send a poet to London.”

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130. “And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz’s giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.”

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131. “Onde se queimam livros, acaba-se queimando pessoas.”

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132. “Graves they say are warm’d by glory; Foolish words and empty story.”

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133. “There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.”

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

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135. “Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.”

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136. “Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.”

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

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138. “From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.”

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139. “Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.”

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140. “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.”

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141. “The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.”

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142. “He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.”

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143. “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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144. “I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.”

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145. “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.”

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

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147. “Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.”

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

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149. “The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.”

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150. “God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!”

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