W.G. Sebald Quotes
Top 39 wise famous quotes and sayings by W.G. Sebald
W.G. Sebald Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
The population decided - out of sheer panic at first - to carry on as if nothing had happened.
- Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures
- Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace?
There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.
What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.
Looking back, you might say that Ambros Adelwarth the private man had ceased to exist, that nothing was left but his shell of decorum.
A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
It was only by following the course time prescribed that we could hasten through the gigantic spaces separating us from each other.
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.