History Quote by R. Scott Bakker

“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes. The expression of history in things is no other than that of past…

— Theodor W. Adorno

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that…

— Babylon 5

“Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.”

— Erika Robuck

“The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today.…

— Amin Maalouf

“The past, like the future, is nebulous; everything we have created in the past was just a consequence of a decision, everything we are…

— Neha Katyal

“History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future,” -105”

— Ahmad Fuadi

Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing…

— Epifanio de los Santos

“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in…

— Roberto Bolaño