Ivan
Turgenev Quotes
1.
If we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
2.
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness
that comes too late.
4.
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.
5.
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
6.
The people who bind themselves to systems are
those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the
tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves
its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a
new one in a twinkling.
7.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one
road or another, and then they punish us for it.
8.
Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an
illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession
of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like
cholera or a fever.
9.The
word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
10.Love,
I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love,
life I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which
nothing else can achieve.
11.To
desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others
is genuine holiness.
12.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.
13.Life
deceives everyone except the individual who does not contemplate it, the
individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its
few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
14. Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life
lies in that.
15. The temerity to believe in nothing.
16. A person who gets angry at his own illness is sure
to overcome it.
17. I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my
own.
18. Death's an old joke, but each individual
encounters it anew.
19. 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.
20. There are some moments in life, some feelings; one
can only point to them and pass by.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's
the workman in it.
24. What's important is that twice two is four and all
the rest's nonsense.
25. There's only one way for an individual to remain
upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of
self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to
say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty
breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of
recognizing one's own.
With affection,
Ruben
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