My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVFor what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVEvil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVNo good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOne should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIn people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAfraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIf only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMany a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWhat is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIn the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOut of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV