History Quote by Yuri Slezkine

“Without people hurting one another, there’s no such thing as story. There’s no such thing as history. The entire record of human myth and…

— Van Badham

The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories;…

— Colson Whitehead

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Paradoxically, the more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the stronger the story becomes, because we desperately want to give meaning to these…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

— David Mitchell

The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring…

— A. C. Bradley

“Breakfasts, picnics, ocean voyages, costume balls, newspapers, boating on the river. Such items do not assort very well with tragedy. But in life, a…

— Margaret Atwood

“Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Tragedies, I was coming to realize through my daily studies in humanities both in and out of the classroom, were a luxury. They were…

— Lorrie Moore

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of…

— Joseph Campbell