Top 45 Quotes & Sayings by Georg Buchner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German dramatist Georg Buchner.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. His literary achievements, though few in number, are generally held in great esteem in Germany and it is widely believed that, had it not been for his early death, he might have joined such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the summit of their profession.

German - Dramatist | October 17, 1813 - February 19, 1837

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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Georg Buchner

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

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

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

Georg Buchner

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

Georg Buchner

That is a long word: forever!

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

Your words smell of corpses.

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

Dying people often become childish.

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Georg Buchner

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

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

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

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

Georg Buchner

Death is the most blessed dream.

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

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

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

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

Love is a peculiar thing.

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

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

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

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

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

Georg Buchner

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.

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 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

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Georg Buchner

The sin is in our thoughts.

Georg Buchner