Author: Heinrich Heine

Quotes

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

- Heinrich Heine

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

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

- Heinrich Heine

When words leave off, music begins.

When words leave off, music begins.

- Heinrich Heine

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

- Heinrich Heine

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

- Heinrich Heine

God will forgive me. It's his job.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

- Heinrich Heine

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

- Heinrich Heine

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

- Heinrich Heine

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

- Heinrich Heine

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