History Quote by Hourly History

“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

“There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one can destroy a man than his deeds.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and…

— Milan Kundera

“I am a modern man with a strong tendency to self-destruction.”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are…

— Samuel Smiles

“Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.”

— Herman Melville

“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action. Destruction awaits…

— Emil Cioran

“the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name.…

— Tom Robbins

“A man who wishes to profess at all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“History foretells that when you give an ordinary person the wisdom of what is right and the dignity to follow his or her heart,…

— Dew Platt