Dying people often become childish.

- Georg Buchner

Your words smell of corpses.

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

Death is the most blessed dream.

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

- Georg Buchner

That is a long word: forever!

- Georg Buchner

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

- Georg Buchner

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

- Georg Buchner

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Georg Buchner