History Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”

— Ian McDonald

“Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.”

— Adrien Rouquette

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

“History is written by the legends.”

— Evan Ricafort

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

“Whenever you see a legend, you can be sure, if you go to the very bottom of things, that you will find history.”

— Vallet de Viriville

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.”

— Romain Gary

“Legends and folklores are the memories of ancient civilizations.”

— ninotaziz

“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

“Heroes are remembered but legends never die.”

— George Herman Ruth

“A legend is who we become for a specific point in time.”

— Khalid Muhammad