More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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 They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
