265 Quotes by Ivan Turgenev

Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!

ஓ, காதல் கொண்ட பெண்ணின் பார்வையே, உன்னை யாரால்தான் வருணிக்க முடியும்?

It's no good writing if God hasn't given you talent. People will just laugh.

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

...the earth quietly swam away from under my feet.

Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere, it is around us. Look at those trees, that sky on all sides there is the breath of beauty, and of life, and where there is life and beauty, there is poetry also.

I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!

Can it be thattheir prayers and their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love,sacred devoted love, is not all powerful? Oh, no! Howeverpassionate, sinful or rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, theflowers growing over it peep at us serenely with their innocent eyes;they tell us not only of eternal peace, of that great peace of"indifferent" nature; they tell us also of eternal reconciliation andof life without end.

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.