black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.

Mikhail Lermontov

Related Topics

Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Commitment Demand Novel Survive
Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Beginning Calm River Sea Water Way
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Belief Earth Power Yourself
Women love only those whom they do not know!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Love Unknown Woman
Women only love those that they don’t know.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Love Unknown Woman
No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Forget Friendship Goodness Man Myself
For what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Creation Hope Prepare Terrible Youth
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Beginning End Unusual
And I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Death Foreign Live Myself Orphan Slave
One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Crime Despair Himself
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Achievement Glory Happiness Ignorance Oneself People Success
What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple – without a divinity!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Divine Empty Forever Ring Temple Word
Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Fire Fuel Love
My love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Darkness Growth Love Oneself Soul
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Heart Human Strange Woman
In 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 LERMONTOV

Eyes Laughter People Place Sorrow
We almost always forgive those we understand.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Forgiveness Human Nature Understand
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Evil Experience Happiness Pleasure
We practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Excuse Practical Understand
Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Ideas Initial One Liner Passion Stage
Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Acknowledge Fact Friendship Himself Slave
In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Eyes Myself People Sin
Out of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Carry Feeling Ideas Life Oneself Storm
My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Feeling Life Misery Myself Reason
If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Life People Thinking Worry
I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Learning Love Myself Ready Understand World
I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV

Believe Goodness Heaven Love Myself Prayer

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes