“Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.”
Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Clarissa Pinkola Estes is an American poet born on January 27, 1945. Her works are characterized by a unique feminine perspective and rich mythological stories, which have won the favor of readers. more
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“[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.”
Source: A Recognizable Image: William Carlos Williams on Art and Artists
“The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.”
“The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.”
“History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.”
“No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.”
Source: Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance