History Quote by Pankaj Mishra

“History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.”

— Donald Cameron Watt

“History is written by the survivors.”

— Gareth Johnson

“Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”

— Timothy Snyder

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman

“Disasters have a way of making us stronger in the broken places. ”

— James Lee Witt

“The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster,”

— James S.A. Corey

“Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake