83 Quotes by Valentin Rasputin

You can't rid of yourself suspicion that easily; once it appears it exists independently; and then it takes over, and the person has no control over it.

Slowly but surely life becomes normal, and a man gets used to it, it doesn't happen any other way.

There's nothing left holy in the world for you. Herods!

It's a fact that even death looks good in company.

Everything, that she was saying, now, everything that she saw and heard, took place in a deep numbness, in which all the senses are stilled and a person exists not in one's own life but with some emergency life that is stuck onto one. In such situations fear, pain, surprise and enlightenment come later, and until such time as one comes to one's senses, this sober, sturdy, and almost unfeeling mechanism takes over.

Whether a person is in bed or walking along and is struck by sudden death, it's right for humans to die on solid ground, with the earth beneath their feet and air trying to get into the lungs.

Of course, you could live without asking questions, just live the way life comes, float with the current, but, I'm crazy that way: I must know why and wherefore, dig down to the truth myself. That's why I'm a man.

Everything, that she was saying, now, everything that she saw and heard, took place in a deep numbness, in which all the senses are stilled and a person exists not in one’s own life but with some emergency life that is stuck onto one. In such situations fear, pain, surprise and enlightenment come later, and until such time as one comes to one’s senses, this sober, sturdy, and almost unfeeling mechanism takes over.

Believe them and they’ll tell you all sorts of things.