"The Rings of Saturn" Quotes
"The Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald is a melancholic exploration of history, memory, and decay, woven through the narrator's walking tour of the English countryside.
fiction | 304 pages | Published in 2016
Quotes
I sat for a long time on the beach, staring out at the sea, and felt how the past was receding and the future was drawing near.
The greater the distance, the clearer the view.
For days on end, I wandered through the streets and was lost in the labyrinth of my thoughts.
In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called up to reach out to God.
The memory of the past is as unreliable as the future we imagine.
We gaze at the stars because the infinite is reflected in our own souls.
Solitude sometimes is best society.
Time, which is itself a circle, breaks up everything.
The light of the past reaches us in the present, but it is only a dim glow.
All the paths of glory lead but to the grave.
