Quotes by : Ivan Turgenev

A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun -....

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

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not....

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

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

Weak people never put an end to things themselves. They always wait for the end.

A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground its movements resemble those of....

You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.

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

And was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart?