34 Quotes by Lucian

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

Now that I know what I want, I don’t have to hold on to it quite so much.

The subject matter is autobiographical, it’s all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

The historian’s one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

I’ll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid.