Quotes by Ivan Turgenev
5 quotes by Ivan Turgenev (died 1883), taken from 5 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Prose Poems: The Sparrow, The Torrents of Spring, A Nobleman’s Nest, On the Eve and A Sportsman’s Sketches.
Prose Poems: The Sparrow
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“Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.”
The Torrents of Spring
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“They felt very happy; the sense of youth, health and life, of free eager onward motion, gained possession of both; it grew stronger every instant.”
A Nobleman’s Nest
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“Again the sky is breathing forth the beaming happiness of spring; again it is smiling upon the earth and upon men; again, beneath its caress, everything has burst into blossom, into love and song.”
On the Eve
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“Happiness! happiness! as long as life is not over, as long as we have the use of all our limbs, as long as we are going up, not down, hill!”
A Sportsman’s Sketches
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“How freely one drinks in the air, how quickly the limbs move, how strong is the whole man, clasped in the fresh breath of spring!”