Ivan Turgenev Quotations

Significance is sweet ...

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference between the natives of the provinces of Orel and Kaluga.

I share no man's opinions; I have my own.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you, and that's all!

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.