History Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.”

— Simone Weil

“Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.”

— Isaac Asimov

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

“Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.”

— Jennifer Worth

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

— Criss Jami

“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”

— Ashim Shanker

“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an instrument for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.”

— Kate Morton

“THERE IS SOMETHING DISPIRITING ABOUT THE MARCH of history. That web which never alters despite an infinite range of motifs and variations: the same…

— Jean d'Ormesson

“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

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“Never in history has such ruination – physical and moral – been associated with the name of one man”.”

— Hourly History