Books Quote by D. H. Lawrence

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Here was the Russia she'd loved since childhood, the dark, violent, passionate place where the life of the mind and spirit were as real…

— Natalie Standiford

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first time, the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that lend themselves…

— Leigh Bardugo

“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences…

— Owen Matthews

The Russian soul is a dark place.

— Anonymous

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and Aksionov, the…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

I'm very inspired by the artfulness and soulfulness of the Russian people.

— Johnny Weir

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think…

— Gary Shteyngart