“With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.”
Source: Three Comrades
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German novelist 1898–1970Related quotes
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 60 “In Preparation for Violence” (p. 323)
"Death to My Hometown"
Song lyrics, Wrecking Ball (2012)
“Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.”
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73 poems (1963)
Context: p>a great
man
is
gone.Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.</p
“There's a hole in the sky
I stood and stared
I feel it inside what isn't there”
"Hole in the Sky"
Made in China (2005)
Context: There's a hole in the sky
I stood and stared
I feel it inside what isn't there
The children are lost we can't find them anywhere Hole in the sky
I'm crying still crying for you.
“We are two abysses — a well staring at the sky.”
Ibid., p. 48
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Somos dois abismos — um poço fitando o céu.
Closing words, p. 554.
A Soldier's Story (1951)
Context: A canvas map lay under my helmet with its four silver stars. Only five years before on May 7, as a lieutenant colonel in civilian clothes, I had ridden a bus down Connecticut Avenue to my desk in the old Munitions building. I opened the mapboard and smoothed out the tabs of the 43 divisions now under my command. They stretched across a 640-mile front of the 12th Army Group. With a china-marking pencil, I wrote in the new date: D plus 335. I walked to the window and ripped open the blackout blinds. Outside the sun was climbing into the sky. The war in Europe had ended.
“One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.”
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