Quotes by Georg Buchner

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

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

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

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

“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?”

“WoyzeckUs 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.”

“MARIEAs the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.WOYZECKI saw him.MARIEYou can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, ...”

“Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has destroyed itself; creation is its wound, we are its drops of blood, the world is the grave in which i...”

“Once upon a time there was a poor child with no father and no mother everything was deadand no one was left in the whole world.Everything was deadand it went and searched day and night And since no...”

“WoyzeckYes, 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.”

“Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.”

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

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