Quote

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

Boris Pasternak

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Boris Pasternak
Age: 70 †
Born: 1890
Born: February 10
Died: 1960
Died: May 30
Novelist
Pianist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Holiwis
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Gains
Necessary
Loss
Lose
Loses
Germinate
Dies
Seed
Life
Seeds
Gain

More quotes by Boris Pasternak

Image
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
Boris Pasternak
Image
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
Boris Pasternak
Image
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
Boris Pasternak
Image
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
Boris Pasternak
Image
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
Boris Pasternak
Image
How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.
Boris Pasternak
Image
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table A candle burned.
Boris Pasternak
Image
They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the blaze of passion often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.
Boris Pasternak
Image
To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Boris Pasternak
Image
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
Boris Pasternak
Image
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!
Boris Pasternak
Image
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
Image
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Boris Pasternak
Image
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.
Boris Pasternak
Image
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Boris Pasternak