Alexander Pushkin Quotes

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.