Quote

The temerity to believe in nothing.

Ivan Turgenev

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Nothing
Believe
Temerity
Atheism

More quotes by Ivan Turgenev

Image
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
Ivan Turgenev
Image
In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
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
Image
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
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
Image
Bazarov drew himself up haughtily. I don't adopt any one's ideas I have my own.
Ivan Turgenev
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.
Ivan Turgenev