Borís Pasternak: Quotes about love

Borís Pasternak was Russian writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Borís Pasternak: 80   quotes 6   likes

“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)

For Wife , For Her , Love

“Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Wedding , Love , People

“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Love , Life , People , Beauty

“Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Goodbye , Love

“Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Love , Truth

“No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to be a victim.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Love , World , Feeling , Strong

“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.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Love , Pain

“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.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Мое собственное сердце скрыло бы это от меня, потому что нелюбовь почти как убийство, и я никому не в силах была бы нанести этого удара.
Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Love , Failure , Heart

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.”

Borís Pasternak

On Soviet bureaucrats, in LIFE magazine (13 June 1960)

Love , Hate