Quotes about Ivan Turgenev

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do...

#Ivan Turgenev

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

#Ivan Turgenev

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

#Ivan Turgenev

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

#Ivan Turgenev

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

#Ivan Turgenev

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

#Ivan Turgenev

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

#Ivan Turgenev

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish...

#Ivan Turgenev

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel...

#Ivan Turgenev

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

#Ivan Turgenev

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes...

#Ivan Turgenev

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

#Ivan Turgenev