Ivan Turgenev Quotes
To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a we...
Show MoreWeak people never put an end to things themselves. They always wait for the end.
Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!
that's all the stars do, look at lovers – that's why they're so beautiful
O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, ev...
Show MoreNezhdanov's heart began to beat violently and he lowered his eyes involuntarily. This girl, who had ...
Show MoreTraces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it se...
Show MorePeople without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the...
Show MoreA poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but ...
Show MoreIt’s strange how things happen in life: you live with someone for a long time, you are on the best o...
Show MoreAnd was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart?
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belo...
Show MoreIt's no good writing if God hasn't given you talent. People will just laugh.
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do n...
Show MoreIn days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and suppo...
Show MoreWomen... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holines...
Show MoreCan it be thattheir prayers and their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love,sacred devoted love, ...
Show MoreWe’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world;...
Show MoreI want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation...
Show MoreYou are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a retu...
Show Morewas coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that rese...
Show MoreO youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, ev...
Show MoreWhereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comp...
Show MoreA man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun -...
Show MoreIt seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that...
Show MoreSentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it le...
Show MoreThat's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does ...
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