top of page
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh

"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."

Standard 
 Customized
"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."

Exlpore more History quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Being that the *historical* Jesus was of pure Hebraic descent- lineage of Eber- He was not an Arab or of Arabic descent, therefore He was not dark skinned as most Israeli's are not."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."

Explore more quotes by Jean Anouilh

Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?"
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"Every man thinks god is on his side."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."
Quote_1.png
Jean Anouilh
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."
bottom of page