Dark History Quotes

“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

“I wanted to learn more about its past but felt this overwhelming need to leave.
I remember hearing somewhere that buildings can hold memories too. Deep in the walls and crevices. If such a thing were true, this building would certainly fit that description.”
― Hadinet Tekie

“We were headed to a historical location with a violent and dark past. It was as if each step taking us closer, made it impossible to not image what transpired there. Each step took us back into a past that we were fortunate enough never to personally experience.”
― Hadinet Tekie