“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Der Hessische Landbote
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“Dying people often become childish”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.”
Georg Büchner Der Hessische Landbote
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?”
Georg Büchner Leonce und Lena
Act I.
Leonce and Lena (1838)
“There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
Georg Büchner Der Hessische Landbote
The Hessian Courier (1834)
“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”
Georg Büchner Dantons Tod
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)