W. G. Sebald Quotes

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

When I think about the stuff I've turned down or the stuff I wasn't interested in, I don't have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things?

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Don't overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

Within what gifts you are given you can change certain events in your life and some people choose not to do that.

At one point, I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably live the same way.

National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the decisions we make, the roads we decide to take at certain points in our life.

If you want to get anywhere in life, you have to make choices.

There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?

I think being in the city is the perfect way to figure out what I want to do.

You just try to make the best decisions you can. You just take life as it comes to you and do your best.

I wish I'd a got married sooner. I wish I'd a had kids sooner. I wish I'd a figured all that out sooner.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

I think when I was 16, I thought I was going to go to law school. And then, once I got into college, I decided I don't like to read that much or to study that much.

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

I was 39 when I did, essentially, a three-quarter sleeve on my left arm. It was very late in life, which is good: I can't think of any decision I made at 19 that I'd be happy with at 39 or even now, at 51.

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn’t think it was very good for my life.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

The day you make a decision about your life is the day your world will change.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.