Quotes by : Ivan Turgenev

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present....

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

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

Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison....

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

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

Nezhdanov's heart began to beat violently and he lowered his eyes involuntarily. This girl, who had fallen....

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the....

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight....