More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
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.
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
