In people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVIn people’s eyes I read pages of malice and sin.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVFor what did the creator prepare me,Why did he so terribly contradict, The hopes of my youth?
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHe in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
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 LERMONTOVIf only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWomen only love those that they don’t know.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe almost always forgive those we understand.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAn unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVEvil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVNo good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVO vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV