Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
No bad man can be a good poet.
Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?
... the unarmed power of naked truth.
Failure to love is almost like murder.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
We must discover security within ourselves.
You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
We're all time's captives, hostages to eternity.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.