Don DeLillo Quotes

While we read history we make history.

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

History is always changing.

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

History is a battleground... but it has always been the case. Remembering is a radical act. Choosing what is important and what belongs in the overstuffed metaphorical dustbin of history is of vital importance.

There is no such thing as a final draft of history.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility.

… history itself appears to be abandoning the eruption of events in favor of stable structures

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

History is only very rarely the story of inevitabilities,” he says, “and it almost never appears in that form to its participants.

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.

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

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.