Russian Literature Quotes

“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.”
― Alexander Pushkin , Eugene Onegin

“We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For some a prologue, for some an epilogue.”
― Bulgakov Mikhail Afanas'evich

“She said nothing, she only looked at me without a word. But it hurts more, it hurts more when they don't blame!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I believe you!' the artiste exclaimed finally and extinguishes his gaze. 'I do! These eyes are not lying! How many times have I told you that your basic error consists in underestimating the significance of the human eye. Understand that the tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes - never! A sudden question is put to you, you don't even flinch, in one second you get hold of yourself and know what you must say to conceal the truth, and you speak quite convincingly, and not a wrinkle on your face moves, but - alas - the truth which the question stirs up from the bottom of your soul leaps momentarily into your eyes, and it's all over! They see it, and you're caught!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is comparable to pushing a beautiful grand piano up a very steep hill.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed... In the old days, you see, if a man - a Frenchman, for instance- wished to get an education, he would have set to work to study the classics, the theologians, the tragedians, historians and philosophers- and you can realize all the intellectual labour involved. But nowadays he goes straight for the literature of negation, rapidly assimilates the essence of the science of negation, and thinks he's finished.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Credo che non ti amerei tanto se in te non ci fosse nulla da lamentare, nulla da rimpiangere. Io non amo la gente perfetta, quelli che non sono mai caduti, non hanno inciampato. La loro è una virtù spenta, di poco valore. A loro non si è svelata la bellezza della vita.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality and fantasy, the transmutation of fact into poetry, often grotesque, oblique, playful, but always expressive of the writer's unique vision of life in his own, unique terms.”
― Mirra Ginsburg, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

“Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whether he lives or doesn't live, he himself will be God. And that other God will no longer be.'
'So, that other God does exist, in your opinion?'
'He doesn't exist, but he does exist. In the stone there' no pain, but in the fear of the stone there is pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. Whoever conquers pain and fear will himself become God.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“...es insoportable ver solo ante si la larga hilera de comidas, mirar la vida como una ceremonia y seguir a la solemne multitud, sin compartir con ella las opiniones generales ni las pasiones.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin

“All the evil in man, one would think, should disappear on contact with Nature, the most spontaneous expression of beauty and goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories

“There was much that was endearing in this strangely Russian search for absolutes —such as the passion for big ideas that gave the literature of nineteenth-century Russia its unique character and power—and yet the underside of this idealism was a badgering didacticism, a moral dogmatism and intolerance, which in its own way was just as harmful as the censorship it opposed.”
― Orlando Figes

“Несовпадение душ неизменное
порождает вопросы пустые,
суету дополняя душевную
объясненьями непростыми...”
― Ekaterina Yakovina, Prikosnovenie Vechnosti

“مردم دانا از قدیم الایام گفته اند که خوشبختی مانند سلامتی است: وقتی نزد کسی هست، هیچ جلب توجه نمی کند، ولی هنگامی که سال ها می گذرند و می روند، آن وقت است که یاد خوشبختی در سرت زنده می شود. چه جور هم زنده می شود!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, A Country Doctor's Notebook & The Fatal Eggs (Hardcover)

“به گفته ی خود او، رعیت پیری به نام فدور لوبانف عشق به شعر را به او آموخت. در داستان کوتاه خود، پونین و بابورین، این دهقان ساده، با ذوق و صاحب زبان زیبا را توصیف می کند، با او روی علفها، در پشت آبگیر می نشست و دهقان با طمطراق اشعاری از خراسکوف و لومونوسوف را برایش از بر می خواند.”
― Henri Troyat, Turgenev

“تورگنیف به ملاقات فلوبر می شتافت چه در گوشه ی انزوایش در خانه ی کرواسه چه در آپارتمان کوچک پاریسیش در خیابان موریو که به سبک الجزایری تزیین شده بود و پنجره هایش رو به پارک مونسو باز می شد. یکشنبه ها مهمانی های پر غوغایی در آنجا بر پا می شد که تورگنیف (( مسکویی خوب))، دوده، زولا، ادمون دوگنکور، موپاسان،... گرد هم می آمدند. فلوبر عبا بر تن و کلاه فینه ای بر سر از آنان پذیرایی می کرد. در میان آنها آزادی عمل و آزادی اندیشه و آزادی بیان بسیار گسترده ای حکمفرما بود.”
― Henri Troyat, Turgenev

“Despite Russia’s luminous literary past, the modern Russian hates and abhors books. There is only one thing that the modern Russian hates and abhors more than he hates and abhors books, and that is the people who read them. Russia’s luminous literary past, as far as the modern Russian is concerned, belongs in the past.”
― Rob Doyle, This is the Ritual

“In general, books burn well. Manuscripts go like gunpowder.”
― Vladimir Sorokin, Day of the Oprichnik

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“کسی که پشت به دشمن می کند و سعی نمی کند روش زندگی انها را بشناسد، حماقت کرده است! بله، حماقت کرده است! اگر من بخواهم گرگی را در جنگل شکار کنم، اول باید بدانم کجا زندگی می کند.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Virgin Soil

“قدرت او در این حقیقت نهفته است که سعی نمی کند تمام دردهای اجتماعی را ا یک ضربه درمان کند. ما مردم روسیه واقعا مردمان عجیبی هستیم! ما راحت می نشینیم و منتظر می شویم چیزی یا کسی بیاید و بلافاصله ما را شفا بدهد، تمام زخم های ما را التیام بخشد، تمام امراض ما را مثل یک دندان فاسد ریشه کن کند. ولی چه کسی یا چیزی باید این طلسم سحرآمیز را بشکند، داروینیسم، روستا، اسقف پری پنتی یف، یک جنگ خارجی، ما نمی دانیم و توجه نداریم، ولی باید دندانمان را بیرون بکشیم! این چیزی نیست مگر فقط تنبلی، بطالت و بی فکری. از طرف دیگر سالومین با سایرین فرق دارد. او داوطلب کشیدن دندان ها نمی شود. می داند که چه کار می کند!.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Virgin Soil

“... достаточно увидеть мужчину и женщину наедине, чтобы понять: кто из двоих любит сильнее или кто из двоих вообще любит. Тот, кто любит, всегда участливо склоняется над тем, кто лежит, заложив руки за голову.”
― Юрий Поляков, Замыслил я побег

“He was reading the Russians with that certain heavy tone people put in their voices when they say, "I'm reading the Russians.”
― Richard Brautigan