Heinrich Heine quote: "Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp"

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...
HEINRICH HEINE

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
HEINRICH HEINE

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
HEINRICH HEINE

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
HEINRICH HEINE

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is ...
HEINRICH HEINE

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
HEINRICH HEINE

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the w...
HEINRICH HEINE

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

Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it t...
HEINRICH HEINE

Where words leave off, music begins.
HEINRICH HEINE

There are more fools in the world than there are people.
HEINRICH HEINE

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
HEINRICH HEINE

I wept in my dreams.
I dreamed you lay in the grave;
I awoke, and the tears
still poured d...
HEINRICH HEINE

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
HEINRICH HEINE

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
HEINRICH HEINE

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fic...
HEINRICH HEINE

In the marvellous month of May
when all the buds were bursting,
then in my heart did
love ...
HEINRICH HEINE

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

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is g...
HEINRICH HEINE

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
HEINRICH HEINE

The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She...
HEINRICH HEINE

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and...
HEINRICH HEINE

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.
HEINRICH HEINE

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
HEINRICH HEINE

Oh what lies lurk in kisses!
HEINRICH HEINE

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if...
HEINRICH HEINE

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
HEINRICH HEINE

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
HEINRICH HEINE

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if...
HEINRICH HEINE

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

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...
HEINRICH HEINE

God will forgive me. It's his job.
HEINRICH HEINE

Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a go...
HEINRICH HEINE

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faul...
HEINRICH HEINE

With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself...
HEINRICH HEINE

When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happe...
HEINRICH HEINE

The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approac...
HEINRICH HEINE

In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my o...
HEINRICH HEINE

The sea appears all golden Beneath the sun-lit sky.
HEINRICH HEINE

In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
HEINRICH HEINE

And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
HEINRICH HEINE

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

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
HEINRICH HEINE

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
HEINRICH HEINE

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
HEINRICH HEINE

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

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
HEINRICH HEINE

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fri...
HEINRICH HEINE

The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all
HEINRICH HEINE

The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.
HEINRICH HEINE

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.
HEINRICH HEINE

Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong; No longer wilt thou love me,-- ...
HEINRICH HEINE

As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of hea...
HEINRICH HEINE

Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heave...
HEINRICH HEINE

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads...
HEINRICH HEINE

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
HEINRICH HEINE

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
HEINRICH HEINE

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
HEINRICH HEINE

The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token Of warning, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one.
HEINRICH HEINE

If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens...
HEINRICH HEINE

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man Bücher verbr...
HEINRICH HEINE

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
HEINRICH HEINE

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier.
(God will forgive me. It's his job.)
HEINRICH HEINE

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
HEINRICH HEINE

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if...
HEINRICH HEINE

And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing ...
HEINRICH HEINE

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

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

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood ...
HEINRICH HEINE

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth str...
HEINRICH HEINE

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
HEINRICH HEINE

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Marriage requires a person to prepare 4 types of "Rings": Engagement Ring Wedding Ring, Suffering, E...
HEINRICH HEINE

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ
HEINRICH HEINE

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
HEINRICH HEINE

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged
HEINRICH HEINE

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foste...
HEINRICH HEINE

We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.
HEINRICH HEINE

I do not know why it should be, but I am so sad; there is an old-time story which I cannot get out o...
HEINRICH HEINE

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
HEINRICH HEINE

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on
HEINRICH HEINE

The men of action are, after all only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought
HEINRICH HEINE

God will pardon me, it is His trade.
HEINRICH HEINE

permanent revolution.
HEINRICH HEINE

Oh, they loved dearly:their souls kissed,they kissed with their eyes,they were both but one single k...
HEINRICH HEINE

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle
HEINRICH HEINE

Ask me not what I have, but what I am
HEINRICH HEINE

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

Die Hauptfragen im Leben muss man sich selbst beantworten - und beantwortet man sich wirklich selbst...
HEINRICH HEINE

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle
HEINRICH HEINE

God will forgive me; that's his business.
HEINRICH HEINE

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.
HEINRICH HEINE

God will pardon me. It is his trade.
HEINRICH HEINE

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
HEINRICH HEINE

I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
HEINRICH HEINE

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.
HEINRICH HEINE

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, ...
HEINRICH HEINE

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked ...
HEINRICH HEINE

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

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above
HEINRICH HEINE

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the...
HEINRICH HEINE

Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."
...
HEINRICH HEINE

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man
HEINRICH HEINE

When words leave off, music begins.
HEINRICH HEINE

What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred
HEINRICH HEINE

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the w...
HEINRICH HEINE

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enoug...
HEINRICH HEINE

Out of my great sorrows I make my little songs
HEINRICH HEINE

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day
HEINRICH HEINE

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by mi...
HEINRICH HEINE

God will forgive me; that's his business
HEINRICH HEINE

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is g...
HEINRICH HEINE

Die reinste Lustigkeit ist die Liebe, Gott ist die Liebe, Gott ist die reinste Lustigkeit.
HEINRICH HEINE

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
HEINRICH HEINE

Woman is at once apple and serpent
HEINRICH HEINE

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

Atheism is the last word of theism
HEINRICH HEINE

Matrimony, - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented
HEINRICH HEINE

It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the ...
HEINRICH HEINE

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.
HEINRICH HEINE

The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I t...
HEINRICH HEINE

Atheism is the last word of theism.
HEINRICH HEINE

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,
He botches up the loop-holes in the structure o...
HEINRICH HEINE

It's not cheap, I can tell you that. We never talk about costs.
HEINE ROIKJER

These numbers are pretty much in line, but the shares have risen strongly over the past year and cle...
ANDREAS HEINE

We don't expect any nasty surprises. The petrochemical margin was significantly better.
ANDREAS HEINE

We think that BASF might be prepared to pay $1 to $2 more than the $37 per share offer if BASF gets ...
ANDREAS HEINE

Usually a lawyer looks at the narrative portion of the registration. An accountant looks at the fina...
JOHN HEINE

Howard announced in October of 2004 on the air that he was leaving terrestrial radio and going to sa...
PAUL HEINE

We encourage customers to get inspired.
HEINE ROIKJER

We are excited to bring the fun and unique IKEA family-friendly shopping experience to West Sacramen...
HEINE ROIKJER

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
HEINRICH MANN

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From su...
HEINRICH BOLL

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters...
HEINRICH BOLL

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not...
HEINRICH SUSO

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not ...
HEINRICH SUSO

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has...
HEINRICH HIMMLER

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands...
HEINRICH HIMMLER

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with w...
HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN

Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are ...
MARTIN HEINRICH

The need of theory is supported by the eros of the philosopher. It is not the expression of his will...
HEINRICH MEIER

Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the m...
MARTIN HEINRICH

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise an...
HEINRICH ROHRER

Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of ...
HEINRICH WEINEL

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN

End of the sixties, Keith Blazey interested me to work on GdAlO3, an antiferromagnet on which he had...
HEINRICH ROHRER

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictat...
HEINRICH BOLL

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to l...
HEINRICH SUSO

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I...
HEINRICH SUSO

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains idea...
HEINRICH MANN

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is ...
MARTIN HEINRICH

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life.
HEINRICH HIMMLER

In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activiti...
HEINRICH ROHRER

People have a fundamental right to organize. It's rooted very much in the Constitution and peopl...
MARTIN HEINRICH

We have a tool in place to develop the product of the future. It could enable us, in the very far fu...
ANDREAS HEINRICH

We will then need alternative structures, and perhaps altogether different ways of computing. Techni...
ANDREAS HEINRICH

We have developed a window into the atomic heart of magnetism. We can now position atoms and then me...
ANDREAS HEINRICH

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, c...
HEINRICH ROHRER

I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, V...
HEINRICH BOLL

I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those ...
HEINRICH BOLL

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
HEINRICH MANN

In summer 1961, Rose-Marie Egger became my wife, and her stabilizing influence has kept me on an eve...
HEINRICH ROHRER

But Fidgety Phil / He won't sit still; / He wriggles / And giggles, / and then, I declare, / Swings ...
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, w...
HEINRICH HIMMLER

My honour is my loyalty
HEINRICH HIMMLER

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, a...
HEINRICH HIMMLER

Take the soup away! / O take the nasty soup away! / I won't have any soup today.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

At this good Tray grew very red, / And growled and bit him till he bled.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

Now tall Agrippa lived close by, - / So tall he almost touched the sky; / He had a mighty inkstand t...
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

Here is cruel Frederick, see! / A horrid wicked boy was he.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

The hare sits snug in leaves and grass, / And laughs to see the green man pass.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

The door flew open, in he ran, / The great, long, red-legged scissor-man.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

Augustus was a chubby lad; / Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had; / And everybody saw with joy / The plump...
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.
HEINRICH MANN

the most incomparably greatest and most astute psychologist of decadence.
HEINRICH MANN

Look at little Johnny there, / Little Johnny Head-In-Air.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

Snip! Snap! Snip! They go so fast. / That both his thumbs are off at last.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.
MARTIN HEINRICH

Anything to me is sweeter / Than to see Shock-headed Peter.
HEINRICH HOFFMAN

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been p...
HEINRICH BOLL

You don't need to drive,
HEINRICH HIMMLER

Once we have the power we will never give it up!
HEINRICH HIMMLER

Admittedly, man is small and insignificant in nature's scheme; but he is part of it. And are we to t...
HEINRICH HARRER

Let us grant courage and the love of pure adventure their own justification, even if we cannot produ...
HEINRICH HARRER

Yes, we had made and excursion into another world and we had come back, but we had brought the joy o...
HEINRICH HARRER

Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with ...
HEINRICH BOLL

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hunga...
HEINRICH HIMMLER

In 1974/75, I spent a sabbatical year with Professor Vince Jaccarino and Dr. Alan King at the Univer...
HEINRICH ROHRER

He pulled up a little thicker in the wind than I wanted. I don't want to start him until he is 100 p...
GILLIAN HEINRICH

It is really 50-50 at the moment.
GILLIAN HEINRICH

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp

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Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp

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