Georg Buchner Quotes & Sayings

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority. — Georg Buchner

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun. — Georg Buchner

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. — Georg Buchner

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise. — Georg Buchner

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder. — Georg Buchner

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. — Georg Buchner

Woyzeck
Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood. — Georg Buchner

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same. — Georg Buchner

I'm going. A lot is possible. The weather's nice, Captain. Look: such a beautiful, solid,
rough sky -you'd almost feel like pounding a block of wood into it and hanging yourself on
it. Only because of the hyphen between yes and no? Is no to blame for yes, or yes for no?
I'll have to think about that. — Georg Buchner

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history. — Georg Buchner

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. — Georg Buchner

MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike. — Georg Buchner

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all. — Georg Buchner

Woyzeck
Yes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder. — Georg Buchner

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. — Georg Buchner

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. — Georg Buchner

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! — Georg Buchner

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. — Georg Buchner

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. — Georg Buchner

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much. — Georg Buchner

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it. — Georg Buchner

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end. — Georg Buchner

If we go to heaven they'll put us to work on the thunder, captain. — Georg Buchner

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. — Georg Buchner

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. — Georg Buchner

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature. — Georg Buchner

Love is a peculiar thing. — Georg Buchner

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. — Georg Buchner

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. — Georg Buchner

Death is the most blessed dream. — Georg Buchner

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces. — Georg Buchner

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. — Georg Buchner

Once upon a time there was a poor child with no father and no mother everything was dead
and no one was left in the whole world.
Everything was dead
and it went and searched day and night And since nobody was left on the earth it wanted to go up to the heavens and the moon was looking at it so friendly and when it finally got to the moon the moon was a piece of rotten wood and then it went to the sun and when it got there the sun was a wilted sunflower and when it got to the stars they were little golden flies stuck up there
like the shrike sticks 'em on the blackthorn and when it wanted to go back down to earth the earth was an overturned piss pot! and was all alone. — Georg Buchner

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. — Georg Buchner

That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned. — Georg Buchner

The sin is in our thoughts. — Georg Buchner

How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down? — Georg Buchner

That is a long word: forever! — Georg Buchner

Slowly, Woyzeck, take it slowly. One thing after another one. You make me feel giddy. - What am I supposed to do with the ten minutes you save rushing that way? What use are they to me? Think about it, Woyzeck; you've got a good thirty years left. Thirty years. That makes three hundred and sizty months - and then there's days, hours, minutes! What're you going to do with such a monstrous amount of time? Eh? Space it out a bit, Woyzeck. — Georg Buchner

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast. — Georg Buchner

Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh. — Georg Buchner

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. — Georg Buchner

Your words smell of corpses. — Georg Buchner

Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom. — Georg Buchner

MARIE
As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.
WOYZECK
I saw him.
MARIE
You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining. — Georg Buchner

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. — Georg Buchner

The power of the people and the power of reason are one. — Georg Buchner

Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it. — Georg Buchner

We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain? — Georg Buchner

Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone. — Georg Buchner

Dying people often become childish. — Georg Buchner

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him? — Georg Buchner

What the Hell am I supposed to do with the extra ten minutes, when he finishes early today? — Georg Buchner

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday. — Georg Buchner

Murder begins where self-defense ends. — Georg Buchner

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. — Georg Buchner