John Berger Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.”

“It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.”

“The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.”

“I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.”

“Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.”