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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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, and the sun is shining.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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 it rots.”