All Boris Pasternak Quotes
- We must discover security within ourselves. Anticipation
- It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. Described
- The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. Artist
- As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. All
- In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. Every Generation
- That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. Dear
- Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember?… Best
- It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began… Began
- If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... Changing
- They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise. Ask
- He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves… Behave
- In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. Dies
- The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable. Inspirational
- Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. Faithfulness
- It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired… Acquired
- We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity. All
- Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death. Beyond
- ... the unarmed power of naked truth. Inspirational
- The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. Age
- No bad man can be a good poet. Bad
- I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of… Accumulated
- 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 revealed its beauty… Adversity
- Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Art
- Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. Abashed
- As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. Anxious