Chaotic Quote by David Grann

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

— John W. Gardner

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

— Eamon Duffy

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices…

— James Howard Kunstler

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing…

— Pearl Cleage

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

— Peter Greenaway

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

— Julian Barnes

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

— Hannah Arendt