Inspirational Quote by Melvyn Douglas

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we…

— Ivan Turgenev

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

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to…

— Masha Gessen

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

— Vladimir Putin

“The difference between the Russian character and the Western is that we Russians have learned to live our days in the full knowledge that…

— Edward Docx

“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

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

— Joseph Brodsky

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Entire civilizations in history had ceased to exist. How had life in them felt in the last decades and days? Russia and the Russians…

— Masha Gessen

We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.

— Boris Yeltsin

“mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.”

— Haruki Murakami