More Quotes by Boris Pasternak
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.
