Boris Pasternak Quotes

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has cru...

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life,...

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your ...

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do the...

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health ...

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

It seemed as if the valley were not always girded by woods, growing on the surrounding hills and fac...

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplyin...

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each ...

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a f...

The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot b...

After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took poss...

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its...

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to ...

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to ...

About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particular...

The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with someth...

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: ...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, dri...

The main misfortune, the root of all the evil to come, was the loss of confidence in the value of on...

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived noti...

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be ...

The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the tim...

I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I do...

For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if b...

This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was di...

It is she who has a hold on him. Doesn't she see how much he needs her? She has nothing to be afraid...

How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if...

An old Russian folk song is like water held back by a dam. It looks as if it were still and were no ...

Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the myst...

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much...

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ...

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down ...

But who are we, where do we come fromWhen all those yearsNothing but idle talk is leftAnd we are now...

The poet gives his whole life such a voluntarily steep incline that it is impossible for it to exist...

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever cha...

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound...

The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm ar...

February. Get ink, shed tears.Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,While torrential slush that roar...

Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it withou...

The sky, drunk with spring and giddy with its fumes, thickened with clouds. Low clouds, drooping at ...

He is on his way to her. In a moment he will leave the wooden sidewalks and vacant lots for the pave...

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I love...

There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it,...

The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never fel...

It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he we...

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only th...

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and ...

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic l...

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to ...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates li...