More Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
..depression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife.
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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.
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.
People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
