Life Quotes by Boris Pasternak

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

— Boris Pasternak

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

— Boris Pasternak

“Life is not as easy as croosing a field”

— Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

— Boris Pasternak

“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.”

— Boris Pasternak

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

— Boris Pasternak

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't…

— Boris Pasternak

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its…

— Boris Pasternak

“What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to…

— Boris Pasternak

“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always…

— Boris Pasternak

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

— Boris Pasternak

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

— Boris Pasternak

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no…

— Boris Pasternak

“For as long as he could remember he had never ceased to wonder why, having arms and legs like everyone else, and…

— Boris Pasternak

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a…

— Boris Pasternak

“I'm broken, I have a crack in me for all my life. I was made a woman prematurely, criminally early, and initiated…

— Boris Pasternak

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning,…

— Boris Pasternak

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but…

— Boris Pasternak

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is…

— Boris Pasternak

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.…

— Boris Pasternak

“For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild…

— Boris Pasternak

It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real…

— Boris Pasternak

“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain.…

— Boris Pasternak

And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed…

— Boris Pasternak

“They loved each other greatly. Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it. To them - and…

— Boris Pasternak

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept…

— Boris Pasternak

About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you…

— Boris Pasternak

“Man in other people is man’s soul. That is what you are, that is what your conscience breathed, relished, was nourished by…

— Boris Pasternak

The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it…

— Boris Pasternak

“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could…

— Boris Pasternak

“Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to listen to. As if all your…

— Boris Pasternak

“Resurrection. In the crude form in which it is preached to console the weak, it is alien to me. I have always…

— Boris Pasternak

“So what will happen to your consciousness [after you die]? *Your* consciousness, yours, not anyone else's. Well, what are *you*? There's the…

— Boris Pasternak

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

— Boris Pasternak

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself...

— Boris Pasternak

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart,…

— Boris Pasternak

“And then the two basic ideals of modern man- without them he is unthinkable- the idea of free personality and the idea…

— Boris Pasternak

I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

— Boris Pasternak

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

— Boris Pasternak

“It’s alleged that our scourge of God and punishment from heaven, Commissar Strelnikov, is Antipov come back to life. A legend, of…

— Boris Pasternak