Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

W. G. Sebald's Popular Quotes

Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Con…

- W. G. Sebald

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

- W. G. Sebald

We all have appointments with the past.

- W. G. Sebald

One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir.…

- W. G. Sebald

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

- W. G. Sebald

The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this or that way, for noth…

- W. G. Sebald

How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?

- W. G. Sebald

In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exp…

- W. G. Sebald

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane …

- W. G. Sebald