That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what… — 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… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“My son,' he wrote to me, 'fear the love of woman; fear that bliss, that poison....” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“...Or was his destiny from the start To be but just one moment Near your heart?...” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“The queen gazes into the garden. There, near the trees, is a fountain; it is white in the darkness and tall, tall… — 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
“Well, what had I to say to you ... I loved you! there was no sense in that even before, and less… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“She tore herself away, and went out. And I went away. I cannot describe the emotion with which I went away. I… — 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
What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved; the melting happiness of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“The man who has not seen such tears in the eyes of his beloved does not know the height of happiness to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“I burnt as in a fire in her presence ... but what did I care to know what the fire was in… — 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
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Oh, sweet emotions, gentle harmony, goodness and peace of the softened heart, melting bliss of the first raptures of love, where are… — 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
