Earth Quote by Svetlana Alexievich

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along…

— Garth Greenwell

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much…

— Nicholas Serota

“Our concern with history is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth…

— W. G. Sebald

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an…

— Félix J. Palma

Any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things

— Paulo Coelho

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

— Keith Allen

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

History is a Pandora's box. We've opened it now, we can't pretend stuff doesn't exist.

— Paterson Joseph

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

— Clint Eastwood

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

— Anonymous

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset