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

Quote by Heinrich Heine

Topics: Death And Dying Quotes, Sleep Quotes

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

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

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

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

God will forgive me; that's his business.

God will forgive me; that's his business.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.

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

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

Atheism is the last word of theism

Atheism is the last word of theism

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

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

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

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

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

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

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

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has...

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has...

Atheism is the last word of theism.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a...

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a...