Quote by W. G. Sebald Download Open image ““It just takes one awful second, I often think, and an entire epoch passes”” — W. G. Sebald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.” — Sally Warner Copy Share Image
“Your time is diminishing per every second and minute that passes.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“It’s difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it’s… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Times slows when your life is in danger. Every second takes a minute to pass, and even the smallest event gets chiseled into memory. (95)” — John Bul Dau Copy Share Image
“This is the way history happens: it is measured out in days rather than epochs.” — Charles Nicholl Copy Share Image
“second pass like hell when you are away ; now years pass like seconds....!” — felix a samuel Copy Share Image
“It was a second. A blink. The flap of a bird's wing, the moment it takes to say hello, or goodbye. So quickly that… — Aditi Khorana Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how time can move both quickly and slowly at the same time.” — Martin Parish Copy Share Image
“We stumble through time, Scrabbling for seconds but Slipping through days.” — Peter Yeremenko Copy Share Image
“Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened,… — Jacqueline Rayner 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
