Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago Quotes
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.
Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.
Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.
For life, too, is only an instant, Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –
For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name
You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.
There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life