Quotes About History

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

But Ireland isn't just landscape, but history and present society. There was famine and brutality and emptiness in the country. And the damaged underclass I was part of in the afternoon pubs was as much part of Ireland as its beauty.

la vida de un museo o una excavación arqueológica, como la de un archivo o una biblioteca, es un tesoro que la colectividad debe preservar con celo a toda costa.

favorite Norwegian novel, Giants in the Earth.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

Tarih bir tahriften ibarettir. Tarih, geçmi?ten gelece?e uzanan ve bugün gördü?ümüz bir rüyad?r. Bütün rüyalar gibi tarih de yorumlanabilir; ama görülürken de?il.

Selim I??k tek ve Türk. Ve duygulu, amans?z. Sab?rs?z ve olumsuz, ya?ant?s?nda cans?z San?l?rd?; gerçekti, hay?r gerçek de?ildi. Tutunamayanlar?n tarihine e?ildi. Kelime ve yaln?zl?k hayat?n tad? tuzu Kucaklamak isterdi ölümü ve sonsuzu.

SAFFET (üzüntülü): Ne yaz?k ki devrimin çocu?u oldu?um için ilk günlerin heyecan?n? ya?ayamad?m. Ben kendimi bildi?im zaman bütün devrimler yap?l?p bitirilmi?ti. (Co?kun'a seslenir). Ben hiçbir devrime yeti?emedim üstat! CO?KUN (aynan?n arkas?ndan ba??n? ç?kararak): Ben baz?lar?nda haz?r bulundum.

??te ?ehirlerin katlar? birbirine kar???yor, i?te arkeolog-kar?ncalar! Her ?eyi yerli yerine yerle?tiriyorlar, i?te onlar?n sayesinde her ?ey Birdenbire anlam kazan?yor: Dört ta? bir ?ehir, yirmi iki kupon bedava bir apartman kat? oluyor, i?te yer levhalar?, i?te Yunanca, Latince ve bizim dilce.

??te güne? hac? Frenkler, i?te güne?! Tozlu ta?lara de?il i?te güne?e bak?n! En eski eser, binlerce, milyonlarca y?l?n ?????!

Tarih gibi bo?anmalar da zaman zaman yeniden yorumlan?r.

In the history of mothers there had certainly been better, but in fairness to history there had most certainly been worse.

Venise n'est plus qu'une carte postale en couleurs." 1912

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.

To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn you, Give you strength. But beware: God is Change. Past is past. What was Cannot Come again. To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.

Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. As though the Germans had been trying to do in only a few years what the Americans had worked at for nearly two hundred. ... Like the Nazis, antebellum whites had known quite a bit about torture - quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn.

We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that's the way things are. That's the way things always have been.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: "I couldn't really let her come all the way back. I couldn't let her return to what she was, I couldn't let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn't leave people quite whole."1 Time

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

There are so many interesting times we could have visited.

To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.

That's history. It happened whether it offends you or not. Quite a bit of it offends me, but there's nothing I can do about it.