Best Boris Pasternak Sayings
- Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Gift
- Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the… All
- What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Always Spills
- I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It… Assemblies
- How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt? Alive
- And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? All
- He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities. Banalities
- Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea… Blades
- You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with -… All
- The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after… Affected
- When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is… Beating
- Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those… Concern
- February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… All
- No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic… Ability
- Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took… Air
- A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to… Apply
- Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen… Beyond
- About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… Attention
- It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would… Categories
- And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on… Becomes
- As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the… Birch
- A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by… All
- And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine… Genuine
- But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the… All
- He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have… All
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