Georg Buchner Quotes

#1. MARIE
As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.
WOYZECK
I saw him.
MARIE
You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.

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#2. We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain?

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

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

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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.

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

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. What the Hell am I supposed to do with the extra ten minutes, when he finishes early today?

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#13. Dying people often become childish.

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#14. The sin is in our thoughts.

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#15. Your words smell of corpses.

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#16. The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

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#17. Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.

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

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

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

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

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#22. 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.

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#23. Love is a peculiar thing.

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

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#25. The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.

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#26. Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

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#27. Murder begins where self-defense ends.

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#28. People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder.

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

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#30. The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

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

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#32. Woyzeck
Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

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

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

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#35. That is a long word: forever!

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#36. If we go to heaven they'll put us to work on the thunder, captain.

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

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#38. 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.

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

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#40. Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

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

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

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

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#44. Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

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#45. Woyzeck
Yes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder.

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#46. 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.

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

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#48. Death is the most blessed dream.

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

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

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

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#52. MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and woman alike.

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

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#54. Look around! Everything's rigid, hard, dark, what lies beneath it all? Something we don't understand. God's gone. Everything's gone.

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