To desire and expect nothing for oneself... by Ivan Turgenev | We Heart Quotes

Author Novelist Literature Nothing Desire

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

- Ivan Turgenev

Other quotes by Ivan Turgenev

Time

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

- Ivan Turgenev

Present

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

- Ivan Turgenev

Care Nature Death Life

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

- Ivan Turgenev

Time Man

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

- Ivan Turgenev

Father People

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

- Ivan Turgenev

People

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

- Ivan Turgenev

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