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
Life
Seeds
Gain
Gains
Necessary
Loss
Lose
Loses
Germinate
Dies
Seed

More quotes by Boris Pasternak

Image
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Boris Pasternak
Image
And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
Boris Pasternak
Image
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Boris Pasternak
Image
To be a woman is a great adventure To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Boris Pasternak
Image
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris Pasternak
Image
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
Boris Pasternak
Image
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
Boris Pasternak
Image
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
Boris Pasternak
Image
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
Image
He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.
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
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
Boris Pasternak
Image
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Boris Pasternak
Image
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
Boris Pasternak
Image
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris Pasternak
Image
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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