History Quote by Henri Cole

“History is the love that enters us through death.”

— Anne Michaels

“mother, ‘I read somewhere that death comes to a person twice. Once when it happens, and once when everyone who remembers them has gone…

— Mary Paulson-Ellis

“Living men forget the lessons of the past. But the ancestors never forget.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“And they had nothing, except of course memories, their own, and those passed down by their mothers and mothers' mothers. A nation's memory.”

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”

— J.K. Rowling

“So our ancestors remembered every bad thing that happened and spent much of their lives anticipating more trouble, and this is the mind we…

— Matt Lewis

“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.”

— Jill Bialosky

“we must come to terms with the wounds of our past if we are to survive the future.”

— Danielle Paige

“I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the masses of dead flesh, at…

— Carrie Ryan

“We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark.”

— Rick Riordan