Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
34
Variant translation: His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the fight, his work was the whitewashing of one corner in a clerk’s office.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Source: The Wish List
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
34
Variant translation: His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the fight, his work was the whitewashing of one corner in a clerk’s office.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Daniel Kash (1959) Canadian actor
Daniel Kash interview: Aliens’ Private Spunkmeyer https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/daniel-kash-interview-aliens-private-spunkymeyer/ (November 6, 2012)
“Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Discipleship (1937), Revenge, p. 143.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Attributed at an unspecified date when Lincoln was a young lawyer, apparently first reported in the Prairie Farmer (March 13, 1886), Volume 58, p. 176. The quote, taken as a whole, has been explained to mean that Lincoln was giving a negative character reference, implying that the subject of that reference was not financially stable, and prone to let details slip.
Posthumous attributions
“And I, as I lived, in an alien land
Will die a slave and an orphan.”
Mikhail Lermontov book The Novice
"The Novice" (1839)
Poems
“You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.”
Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire
Source: Rose Under Fire