History Quote by Robert Ellsberg

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To those of…

— Will Durant

“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what…

— Joanne Harris

“that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would yet be felt,…

— George Saunders

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn’t leave the enduring…

— Dean Koontz

“When a great man dies, nations mourn. When an ordinary man dies, only those who loved him mourn. When an evil man dies, even…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“As persons, so Mournier maintained, we possess both a spiritual and temporal dimension; we exist in history, in relationship with others, but open to…

— Robert Ellsberg

“Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only…

— Dean Koontz

“There are stages in the contemplation and endurance of great sorrow, which endow men with the same earnestness and clearness of thought that in…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“As we forgo our urge to wrestle with past events and their painful effects, we experience the rolling back of suffering. In its stead,…

— Cheryl Zelenka