W. G. Sebald Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.

  W. G. Sebald

  Eye, Shadow, Ruins

  W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.30, Penguin UK

• At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Believe, Eye

  "The Rings of Saturn Эту информацию не копировать в источник:".

• Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.

  W. G. Sebald

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

• I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry[the geometric measurement of solid bodies], between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.

  W. G. Sebald

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

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