Heinrich Heine

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

God will pardon me. It's his business.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

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.

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

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!

God will forgive me that is His business.

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!

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

God will forgive me. That's his business.

When words leave off music begins.

I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in proud indifference.Now, when my grave is dug, they taunt me; Now, when I'm sick to death in pain, In mocking torment still they haunt me, Those fragrant blooms of my disdain.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged