History Quote by China Miéville

“Part of history is tracing artifacts and looking at patterns.”

— A.G. Riddle

“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.”

— Simone Weil

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”

— Ashim Shanker

“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of…

— David Grann

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Past a certain point, all the dates grow hazy and confused, and the clarity of history becomes the fog of legend.”

— George R. R. Martin

“The event of history is hidden in time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

— Criss Jami

“The archival document is a tear in the fabric of time, an unplanned glimpse offered into an unexpected event.”

— Arlette Farge

“Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.”

— Roberto Bolaño