Georg Buchner
Georg Buchner
Karl Georg Büchnerwas a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement. He was also a revolutionary, a natural scientist, and the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. His literary achievements, though few in number, are generally held in great esteem in Germany and it is widely believed that, had it not been for his early death, he might have joined such central German literary figures as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 October 1813
CountryGermany
The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children
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.
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
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.
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
Love is a peculiar thing.
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.