Conditions Quote by Haniel Long

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison…

— H. G. Wells

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

— Jules Romains

“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a…

— John Fante

“horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our…

— Peter James

One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom…

— Immanuel Kant

“history shows human beings to be the most dangerous of nature’s show-offs. Inimical to each other, given over to greed and insatiable appetites. Nature…

— Ruskin Bond

At times of economic upheaval and hardship, history tells us that people can become fearful and resentful.

— Wes Streeting

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

How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world…

— Aberjhani

“All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure meaning of…

— John Fante

“An Egyptian monk, after fifteen years of complete solitude, received a packet of letters from his family and friends. He did not open them,…

— Emil M. Cioran

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting…

— Ezra Taft Benson