“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
original German version: 'Es fiel mir schwer, so plötzlich abzureisen, da ich dies Jahr vollständig in der Landschaft und dem Leben da oben aufging und nur fast ohne Bewusstsein zuzugreifen brauchte.'
as quoted in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: ein Künstlerleben in Selbstzeugnissen, Andreas Gabelmann; Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany 2010, p. 41 (transl. Claire Albiez )
As Kirchner had been busying himself with nature images since the Summer of 1913, the outbreak of World War 1. brought him back to reality; as he describes here
undated
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
“A woman who had fallen out of love with her life”
Jhumpa Lahiri book Interpreter of Maladies
Source: Interpreter of Maladies
