History Quote by J.G. McKenney

“History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.”

— James Joyce

“History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken”

— John Sladek

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

“I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.”

— Martha Cooley

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

“The absolute truth is the biggest myth in human history.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Myth is stories about the way things never were, but always are.”

— Marcus Borg

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

“history textbooks need to disabuse students of the flat-earth myth.”

— James W. Loewen