Quotes from Heinrich Heine
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
— 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
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
— Heinrich Heine
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
— Heinrich Heine
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
— 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
Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.
— Heinrich Heine
Atheism is the last word of theism.
— Heinrich Heine
Where words leave off, music begins.
— Heinrich Heine
With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.
— Heinrich Heine
Besides, ghost-stories are even more blood-curdling if you are reading them on a journey, especially at night, in a town, in a house, in a room where you have never been before. How many horrific events may already have taken place on the very spot where you are lying?—that is what you cannot help wondering.
— Heinrich Heine
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
— Heinrich Heine