History Quote by James A. Baldwin

“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history…

— James Baldwin

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —JAMES JOYCE”

— Gordon G. Chang

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

— Philip Roth

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening.

— James Joyce

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

— Anonymous

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

— James Joyce

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

— Anonymous

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

— James Joyce

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

— Frederick Busch

The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort…

— John Edgar Wideman

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov