Quotes by Heinrich Heine

“Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.”

“God will forgive me that's his business.”

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

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

“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.”

“Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.”

“Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.”

“The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.”

“God will forgive me. It's his job.”

“When words leave off, music begins.”

“Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.”

“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”

“The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.”

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

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