Ivan Turgenev Quotes

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Belonging to oneself the whole essence of life lies in that.

That's what children are for that their parents may not be bored.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.