A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVA strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman’s heart in particular.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVNo good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe almost always forgive those we understand.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWomen love only those whom they do not know!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOf two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVLove, like fire, goes out without fuel.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIn people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOut of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe practically always excuse things when we understand them.
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 LERMONTOVFor what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIf only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV