Quote by Jonas Jonasson

“There is no such thing as a historical fatality; there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the…

— Jack L. Chalker

“Men said things like "peace in our time" or "an empire that will last a thousand years," and less than half a lifetime later…

— Terry Pratchett

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“They were assured, of course, of the inerrable equality of death, but nobody wanted that kind of equality.”

— Albert Camus

“The one similarity among all the people in the history is, they died alive.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman…

— James Hannam

“Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?”

— Jean Said Makdisi

“There are undoubtedly advantages to being dead, said Julius.”

— Jonas Jonasson

“All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.”

— Terry Brooks

“Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor’s at the stake.…

— William Shakespeare

“You mean, the good old days of the fourteenth century.”

— Bobby Akart