Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. Heinrich Heine More Quotes by Heinrich Heine More Quotes From Heinrich Heine 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 tired taken real Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter. Heinrich Heine miracle spirit matter The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection. Heinrich Heine light blue thinking The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine literature fundamentals evil Of course God will forgive me; that's His job. Heinrich Heine God will forgive me, that's his business. Heinrich Heine Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.) Heinrich Heine Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. Heinrich Heine Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. Heinrich Heine It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all. Heinrich Heine The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit Heinrich Heine The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. Heinrich Heine The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. Heinrich Heine Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people. Heinrich Heine Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. Heinrich Heine Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. Heinrich Heine understand communism death people When words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine begins off words leave music Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. Heinrich Heine sense some man religion The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. Heinrich Heine me wedding music battle