14 quotes
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Solovyov or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Doctor Zhivago (1958)
A candle burned on the table, a candle burned ... he whispered to himself — the beginning of something confused, formless; he hoped that it would take shape of itself. But nothing more came to him.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Snow, snow over the whole land
across all boundaries.
The candle burned on the table,
the candle burned.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness...
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
"How wonderful to be alive," he thought. "But why does it always hurt?"
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats — any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death — then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
My own heart would have concealed it from me, for failure to love is almost like murder and I would have been incapable of inflicting such a blow on anyone.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
The main misfortune, the root of all evil to come, was loss of the confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date of follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)