Georg Buchner Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

That is a long word: forever!

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

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

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

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

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

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.

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

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

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Love is a peculiar thing.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

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

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

Dying people often become childish.

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

Death is the most blessed dream.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

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

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

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

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

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

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.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

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

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