Quote by Mikhail Lermontov

I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the…

— Mikhail Lermontov

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

— Mikhail Lermontov

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

— Mikhail Lermontov

“I have an unfortunate character; whether it is my upbringing that made me like that or God who created me so, I do not…

— Mikhail Lermontov

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

— Mikhail Lermontov

What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life.…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“Moja je pusta mladost protekla u borbi sa samim sobom i sa svijetom; bojeći se poruge, pokopao sam svoje najbolje osjećaje na dnu srca;…

— Mikhail Lermontov

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

— Mikhail Lermontov

I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain…

— Mikhail Lermontov