History Quote by Kate Atkinson

“The past does not exist unless you carry the remains of it with you.”

— Alanna Zabel

“I liked the idea, how the past could be preserved, fossilized, in the stars. I wanted to think that somewhere on the other end…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.”

— Tom Harper

“All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.”

— Ashim Shanker

“I had learnt from my work: that all pain is erased in the passage of time. Not just by, but in. In ten decades…

— Kylie Ladd

“Engage in a loving archaeological dig back to yourself. Let all that is not yours within you fall away until only your real nature…

— Jewel

“There was an elegance to things back then. With everything around us changing so quickly, it doesn't hurt to have a few touchstones to…

— Phil Coulson

“I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or…

— Margaret Atwood

“The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.”

— William Trevor

“we are not on the side of history made. We were, as I have said, situated in such a way that every lived minute…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still." "These relics have a history then?" "So…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“History’s smell. Like old roses on a breeze. It would lurk forever in ordinary things. In coat hangers. Tomatoes. In the tar on roads.…

— Arundhati Roy