History Quote by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”

— Péter Esterházy

“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead…

— Walter Benjamin

“If history teaches us anything at all, it is that sooner or later, wherever you go or whatever you do, the sad, brutal fact…

— Taylor Anderson

“Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible…

— Alexandre Dumas

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”

— Jean Said Makdisi

“Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.”

— Travis Berketa

“There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.”

— Henning Mankell

“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in…

— Roberto Bolaño

“accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after you were…

— George Orwell

“History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?”

— Jeanne M. Dams

“Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.”

— Anonymous