Burden Quote by Sarah Dessen

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.”

— Sarah Dessen

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

— Tracy K. Smith

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

— David Von Drehle

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about…

— Jennifer Donnelly

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

— Anonymous

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

— John W. Gardner

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

— Donald Trump

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

— Lawrence Durrell

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb