Quotes from Georg Buchner

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

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

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

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

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

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

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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