Logo
Quote by Walter Benjamin
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

Other quotes by Walter Benjamin

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Art
Author
Walter Benjamin
Read Quote

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Facts
Author
Walter Benjamin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Death
category

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. – Russell Baker

Category:
Death

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. – Robert Green Ingersoll

Category:
Death

If you make every game a life and death proposition, youre going to have problems. For one thing, youll be dead a lot. – Dean Smith

Category:
Death

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown. – Vaslav Nijinsky

Category:
alone

Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. – Andrew Lias

Category:
Religion

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. – Richard J. Ferris

Category:
Feminism

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just dont want to see the truth! – Jonathan Davis

Category:
Truth