Quotes by Georg Buchner

• Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
• 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.
• The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
• The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
• The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
• The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
• They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
• We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
• We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
• Your words smell of corpses.
• The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
• How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
• We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
• I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
• Love is a peculiar thing.
• A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
• Dying people often become childish.
• Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
• The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
• Murder begins where self-defense ends.
• 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.
• Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
• That is a long word: forever!
• The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
• The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.