Dark Quote by George R. R. Martin Download Open image “The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.” — George R. R. Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dark History Horror Human history Humans Lord Orcs
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at the mercy of cruel circumstances that have been generated by an inhuman, mostly unseen network of power relations. This is why there are no ‘goodies’ or ‘baddies’ in this book. Instead, it is populated by people… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Jaime had decided that he would return Sansa, and the younger girl as well if she could be found. It was not like to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.” — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.' — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image