Quote by W.G. Sebald

“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance,…

— W.G. Sebald

“...I was just laying aside a Lausanne paper I'd bought in Zurich when my eye was caught by a report that said the remains…

— W.G. Sebald

“Is the destruction not, rather, irrefutable proof that the catastrophes which develop, so to speak, in our hands and seem to break out suddenly…

— W.G. Sebald

“You adulterate the truth as you write. There isn't any pretense that you try to arrive at the literal truth. And the only consolation…

— W.G. Sebald

“In this little booklet, which had belonged to a maternal great-uncle of ... mine, who spent some time working as an office clerk in…

— W.G. Sebald

“It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it…

— W.G. Sebald

“...I remembered the story Evan the cobbler had told me, about the two headstreams of Dwy Fawr and Dwy Fach which are said to…

— W.G. Sebald

“Once I am at leisure, said Salvatore, I take refuge in prose as one might in a boat. All day long I am surrounded…

— W.G. Sebald

“What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.”

— W.G. Sebald

“Looking at those gashed bodies, and at the witnesses of the execution, doubled up by grief like snapped reeds, I gradually understood that, beyond…

— W.G. Sebald

“I have even begun to speak in foreign tongues roaming like a nomad in my own town.”

— W.G. Sebald

“From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on a staircase,…

— W.G. Sebald