Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.
Ivan Turgenev
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ivan Turgenev
Age: 65 †
Born: 1818
Born: January 1
Died: 1883
Died: January 1
Dramaturge
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
Orel
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Express
Impossible
Everything
Mind
More quotes by Ivan Turgenev
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Ivan Turgenev
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
Ivan Turgenev
Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
Ivan Turgenev
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
Ivan Turgenev
Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.
Ivan Turgenev
Oh, gentle feelings, soft sounds, the goodness and the gradual stilling of a soul that has been moved the melting happiness of the first tender, touching joys of love- where are you?
Ivan Turgenev
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
Ivan Turgenev
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
Ivan Turgenev
What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.
Ivan Turgenev
Even nightingales can’t be fed on fairy tales.
Ivan Turgenev
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
Ivan Turgenev
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.
Ivan Turgenev
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.
Ivan Turgenev
We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
Ivan Turgenev
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
Ivan Turgenev
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.
Ivan Turgenev
Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
Ivan Turgenev
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.
Ivan Turgenev
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
Ivan Turgenev
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.
Ivan Turgenev
