At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
BORIS PASTERNAKAs for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
More Boris Pasternak Quotes
-
-
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
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.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
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.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
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.
BORIS PASTERNAK