There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Every man hangs by a thread, any minute the abyss may open under his feet, and yet he must go and invent… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“First love is like a revolution; the uniformly regular routine of ordered life is broken down and shattered in one instant; youth… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“While a man is living he is not conscious of his own life; it becomes audible to him, like a sound, after… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“And was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart?” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“I think; here I lie under a haystack.... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitely small in comparison with the rest of space,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“There was nothing ugly in the small, unprepossessing figure of this emancipated woman, but the expression on her face made a bad impression on… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
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… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
