Heinrich Heine, Paris, January 2, 1856

after eight year in his "mattress tomb" in Paris, Heinrich Heine, in worsening condition, after coughing for 24 hours straight, and with a terrible headache wrote a note to his new muse "Mouche":
"I am almost going out of my mind with anger, pain, and impatience. I am going to complain to the Animal Protection League about a God who tortures me so cruelly."

-- The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine's Last Years in Paris, Ernst Pawel, p. 184.