Abstract Quote by W. G. Sebald Download Open image “Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.” — W. G. Sebald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstract Home Humanity Nature of man Time
I think the whole idea of home is central to who we are as human beings. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.” — Gerald M. Givens Copy Share Image
“Humans, even nomadic ones, need a sense of home. Home need not be one place or any place at all, but every home has… — Eric Weiner 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
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
