# Heinrich Heine's best quotes

From The Harz Journey to Night Thoughts: Heine's sharpest and most beautiful lines, each with its source.

- 24 votes · 14 items
- Jan 1, 2024 · die_fernweh
- https://even.best/en/l/2895/heinrich-heine-s-best-quotes

## Top 13

1. **On wings of song, my darling, I will carry you away.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Book of Songs, Lyrical Intermezzo.
2. **Rome always wanted to rule, and when its legions fell, it sent dogmas to the provinces.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Travel Pictures, The North Sea.
3. **God will forgive me; that's his job.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — His reported last words.
4. **I do not know what it means that I am so sad.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Lorelei, Book of Songs.
5. **That's the nice thing about Germans: no one is so mad that he can't find someone madder who understands him.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Harz Journey.
6. **When the emperor itches, the peoples have to scratch.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Last Poems.
7. **When I think of Germany at night, I am robbed of my sleep.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Night Thoughts (1843).
8. **Scents are the feelings of flowers.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Harz Journey.
9. **Money is round and rolls away, but education stays.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Travel Pictures, The Baths of Lucca.
10. **I read the boring book, fell asleep over it, dreamt I was still reading, woke up from boredom, and did that three times.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Thoughts and Fancies.
11. **When you really think about it, we are all naked inside our clothes.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Travel Pictures, Norderney.
12. **The stars of our fortune lie within ourselves.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Memoirs, 1854.
13. **The town itself is beautiful, and pleases you most when you look at it with your back.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Harz Journey, on Göttingen.
14. **Pleasure is nothing but a highly agreeable pain.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Travel Pictures, Italy.

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