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More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.