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Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Type: Novelist Quotes Category: Russian Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: October 28, 1818 Date of Death: September 3, 1883 Nationality: Russian Find on Amazon: Ivan Turgenev Related Authors: Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Boris Pasternak Maxim Gorky Alexander Solzehnitsyn Yevgeny Zamyatin Romain Gary

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. Ivan Turgenev Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it. Ivan Turgenev Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. Ivan Turgenev However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. Ivan Turgenev I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. Ivan Turgenev In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language! Ivan Turgenev In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness. Ivan Turgenev Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. Ivan Turgenev Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. Ivan Turgenev One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. Ivan Turgenev People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. Ivan Turgenev The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. Ivan Turgenev There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by. Ivan Turgenev Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. Ivan Turgenev Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. Ivan Turgenev To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. Ivan Turgenev We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. Ivan Turgenev Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four. Ivan Turgenev Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? Ivan Turgenev Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em. Ivan Turgenev

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