Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
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Famous Ivan Turgenev Quotes
“Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.”
“That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.”
Source: First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man
Source: The Torrents of Spring: And First Love
“I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
Source: First love
“I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.”
Source: First love
Source: First love
“The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.”
“Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”
Source: Essential Turgenev
Source: The essential Turgenev
“Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.”
“I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
Source: Essential Turgenev
“Everyone needs help from everyone else.”
Source: Letters
Source: Fathers and Children
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.”
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
Source: Essential Turgenev
“Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.”
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.”
“A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.”
Source: Fathers and Sons
“Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.”
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“The past was a dream wasn't it? And who ever remembers dreams?”
Source: Fathers and Sons
Source: Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)
“There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.”
Source: Essential Turgenev
“Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?”