W. G. Sebald Quotes About Oblivion

Quotes about: Oblivion

• ...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Thinking, Darkness

  W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.34, Penguin UK

• To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

  W. G. Sebald

  Summer, Fall, Men

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

• ... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

  W. G. Sebald

  Fields, Oblivion, Slow Down

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.276, Vintage Canada

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