History Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

“There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.”

— Dryden

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

— Jack Kerouac

“They just want to make sure we haven't gone mad. You haven't gone mad, have you?”

— Lauren DeStefano

“We were all born mad. Some remain so.”

— Samuel Beckett

“You just make me so...mad sometimes.”

— Julie Ann Walker

“If you are mad right now, good. Use your emotions as fuel to write down everything now.”

— Christy Piper

“Let no one be so mad as to believe that there is anything more pleasurable than history.”

— Nicetas Choniates

“Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility.”

— Ali Smith

“I just need to be mad for a little while, okay? I know it might not be the most mature thing, but there it…

— Cynthia Hand

“Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.”

— Ava Gardner

“I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”

— Sophocles

“History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.”

— Jeanette Winterson