Danger Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“The Historian and the Man of Science alike may be said to traffic with the dead. Cuvier has imparted flesh and motion and appetites…

— A.S. Byatt

“The core fuel for your life should not come from your darkest places or past tormentors. It should not come from the foundation of…

— Nate Green

“Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as ethnographers try…

— Robert A. Orsi

“Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you…

— Samuel R. Delany

“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away. It is simply there , never to change, and in its constancy it…

— Anthony Esolen

“the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it wanted to…

— Jennifer Ashley

“Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by…

— Ray Simpson

“I found it idiotically distressing that a sharp finger whistle could no longer summon them outdoors into a playful twilight. An ancient discovery was…

— Joseph O'Neill

“In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67 or ’68…

— Alice James

“To learn that his treasures had been lost months ago, and so far away, was no different from learning of the death, similarly distant…

— Susan Sontag

“you needed only to comprehend that there is a hidden natural explanation for everything that alarms or eludes you. That explanation will inevitably lead…

— Stephen Greenblatt