Home » Quote » James Joyce » „History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.“ „History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.“ — James Joyce Tags:History Related quotes „I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.“ — Charlie Chaplin „I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.“ — James Baldwin „I suppose I am still a believer in the now unfashionable "heroic" school, which says that history is shaped by individual men and women and the choices that they make, by deeds glorious and terrible.“ — George Raymond Richard Martin