Quotes Ivan Turgenev

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should k...

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or anot...

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew....

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answ...

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own....

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's ...

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry ...

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses...

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it...

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthus...

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate ...

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for...

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only ...

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a sn...

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and some...

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profoun...

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars....

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a mira...

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those ...

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em....

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. ...