W. G. Sebald Quotes
We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
Quotes to Explore
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
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In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality.
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In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
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Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
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The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
