Alexander Pushkin Quotes

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

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

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

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

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.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

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.

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

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

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.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

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

I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

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

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

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

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

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

I was not born to amuse the Tsars.

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

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

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

I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

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.

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