Georg Buchner Quotes

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

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

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.

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

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

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

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

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.

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

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Death is the most blessed dream.

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.

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

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

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

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

That is a long word: forever!

Love is a peculiar thing.