W.G. Sebald Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Tudo parecia organizado da melhor forma possível, como se de fato o mundo constasse somente de palavras, como se assim o próprio horror fosse trazido para dimensões seguras, como se para cada aspecto de uma coisa houvesse um reverso, para cada mal um bem, para cada dissabor um prazer, para cada infelicidade uma felicidade e para cada mentira um quinhão de verdade. Vertigo

2. Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently. Austerlitz

3. It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time. Austerlitz

4. Looking back, she said, she realized that history consists of nothing but misfortune, and the troubles that afflict us, so that in all our days on earth we never know one single moment that is genuinely free of fear. The Rings of Saturn

5. The future exists only in the shape of our present apprehensions and hopes, and the past merely as memory. The Rings of Saturn