Heinrich Heine Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Heart, Humble

• Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, People, Revolution

• My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Ocean

• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling...

  Heinrich Heine

  Dream, Flower, Heart

  "Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos".

• If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Heart, Mass

  Heinrich Heine (1973). “Memoirs, from His Works, Letters, and Conversations”

• Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

  Heinrich Heine

  Wise, Witty, Philosophical

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.235

• As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

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  Country, Stars, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

• The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

  Heinrich Heine

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.17

• The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Men, Years

• But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.

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  Death, Lonely, Lying

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.173

• In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.

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  Heart, Bird, Singing

• I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Break, Ifs

• But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Latin, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

• If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.

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  Heart, Lovers, Form

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.190

• He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

  Heinrich Heine

  Heart, Coward, Venture

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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