W. G. Sebald Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 18, 1944 - December 14, 2001
Birthday: May 18
Death: December 14
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.
source: W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing
topic: Mother, Light, Boston, Nightfall, Frankfurt
