Famous Boris Pasternak Quotes

  • Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them. – Boris Pasternak

    Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.– Boris Pasternak

  • When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. – Boris Pasternak

    When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. – Boris Pasternak

  • If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love. – Boris Pasternak

    If it’s so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.– Boris Pasternak

  • In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being. – Boris Pasternak

    In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.– Boris Pasternak

  • For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift -“ – Boris Pasternak

    For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift -“– Boris Pasternak

  • For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift -“– Boris Pasternak

  • The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable. – Boris Pasternak

    The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.– Boris Pasternak

  • Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious! – Boris Pasternak

    Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Life itself, the phenomenon of life, the gift of life, is so breath-takingly serious!– Boris Pasternak

  • As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. – Boris Pasternak

    As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.– Boris Pasternak

  • And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart? – Boris Pasternak

    And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?– Boris Pasternak