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 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 LERMONTOVMany a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
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 LERMONTOVLove, like fire, goes out without fuel.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVMy love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOut of life’s storm I carried only a few ideas – and not one feeling.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHappy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe almost always forgive those we understand.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVWe practically always excuse things when we understand them.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAnd I, as I lived, in an alien land, Will die a slave and an orphan.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVI was born, so that the whole world could be a spectator Of my triumph or my doom.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVHe in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVOne should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOVAn unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV