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Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) I agree with no one’s opinion. I have some of my own  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn’t contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) What’s terrible is that there’s nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we’re absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) 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  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) For myself, I detest the fellow, and think him a charlatan. I am certain that, in spite of his frogs, he is making no real progress in physics  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) The drawing shows me at a glance what would be spread over ten pages in a book  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) You may live a long while with some people, and be on friendly terms with them, and never once speak openly with them from your soul  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) A bright spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they’ve suddenly become nihilists  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by  (Ivan Turgenev Quotes) 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 Quotes)
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