If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much. Mikhail Lermontov More Quotes by Mikhail Lermontov More Quotes From Mikhail Lermontov my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out Mikhail Lermontov my-soul soul In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper. Mikhail Lermontov nature simple heart Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. Mikhail Lermontov stage passion ideas It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet. Mikhail Lermontov dream sweet men We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment. Mikhail Lermontov novelty commitment Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself. Mikhail Lermontov two-friends slave facts My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason. Mikhail Lermontov denial miserable feelings I want to reconcile myself with heaven, Mikhail Lermontov want heaven believe In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin. Mikhail Lermontov sin eye people A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular. Mikhail Lermontov strange humans heart Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing. Mikhail Lermontov embarrassing cherish love-is There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second? Mikhail Lermontov forever men two What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet. Mikhail Lermontov loss home men O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! Mikhail Lermontov vanity earth mean When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again. Mikhail Lermontov soul children fall I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun. Mikhail Lermontov storm boards soul Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. Mikhail Lermontov achieve glory people Women only love those that they don’t know. Mikhail Lermontov only-love knows The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends. Mikhail Lermontov men people interesting I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer. Mikhail Lermontov heart believe lying
