Quotes by : Ivan Turgenev

Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed....

O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world;....

that's all the stars do, look at lovers – that's why they're so beautiful

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not....

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return....

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.....

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

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

Can it be thattheir prayers and their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love,sacred devoted love, is....

O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, even....