Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

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

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared.

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

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

God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.