Lauren Groff Quotes

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

I'm not sure history has ended.

Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

In the 70s Sweden was innocent, but we've lost that. Society has become less idealistic and everything is about how much money you have in your wallet.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

As you get older you start to see these events and leaders, and movements of the pendulum swinging back.

There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.

I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a decent cause, and never know the thrill of even partial victories.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

History repeats herself.

I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I don't know if I'm the only one. I feel like, when you read through history books, you always judge those people in that time.

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vision that might imagine a different sort of society from the dysfunctional, militarizing, and deeply unequal social order that marked the current historical period.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.