Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I was always especially entranced... by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I'd hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your real problems might be in life,… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
![“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.” quote by W. G. Sebald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/739/w-g-sebald-10441_cry_one-has-the-impression-that-something-is_1119898.jpg)
