Alexander Pushkin Quotes

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's beautiful and rare.

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.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.

I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

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.

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.

Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

I gaze forward without fear.

But flaming youth in all it's madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are babbled out and soon revealed.

Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory

The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,