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Ivan Turgenev [1818-1883] Russian

Rank: 101
Novelist

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, was a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction.

Alone, Brainy, Death, Freedom, Future, Nature, Poetry, Strength, Sympathy, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.		101
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.	Time	102
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.	Nature	103
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.	Future	104
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?	Strength	105
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!	Alone	106
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.	Poetry	107
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.	Freedom	108
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.	Sympathy	109
Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.		110
There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.		111
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.	Death	112
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.		113
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.		114
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.		115
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.		116
I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.		117
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.	Brainy	118
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.		119

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