Ivan Turgenev Quotes
Top 98 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve ...
Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.
I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to acknowledge to myself that I was not loved;
So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal ...
Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.
We act by virtue of what we recognize as beneficial. At the present time, negation is the most beneficial of all - and we deny.
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
I? Believe me, Zinaida Alexandrovna, that whatever you did, however much you make me suffer, I shall love you and adore you to the end of my days.
He was the soul of politeness to everyone
to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
The "why not" of youth, the secret desire to know his luck, to try his strength all on his own without the support of another, eventually won through.
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic
and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
In his heart he was highly delighted with his friend's suggestion, but he thought it a duty to conceal his feeling. He was not a nihilist for nothing!
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
She found it sinful and expensive to have sugar in her tea, although she herself never spent a penny on anything.
[ ... ] no carrot would be permitted in a soup that had not first assumed a rhomboidal or trapezoidal shape.
But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.
Death doesn't come running, but you can't run away from it, neither; nor must you be helping it along.
To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
How sad that youth, with all its power,
Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn;
Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn;
It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.
Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.
Caprice and irresponsibility ... .
Those two words sum you up; your whole nature's contained in those
two words.
Those two words sum you up; your whole nature's contained in those
two words.
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.
Nowhere does time pass as swiftly as in Russia, though they say that in prison it passes even more quickly.