Heinrich Heine

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

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

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?