History Quote by Simone Weil

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Anne Michaels

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“History is dead until we make it live; but it is the lively interpretation of history that makes it interesting.”

— Robert J. Devaux

“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one another in…

— Roberto Bolaño

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

— Ashim Shanker

“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

“History is the history of cruelty, not love, as soft men think.”

— Saul Bellow

“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.”

— peter adejimi

“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.”

— Daniel Walker Howe

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

— Sarah Dessen