Georg Büchner Quotes

Und müden Augen jedes Licht zu scharf, und müden Lippen jeder Hauch zu schwer, Lächelnd. und müden Ohren jedes Wort zu viel.

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

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

Your words smell of corpses.

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 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.

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.

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

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

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.

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

There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.

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