Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
More Quotes from Ivan Turgenev:
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.Ivan Turgenev
Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.
Ivan Turgenev
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel
Ivan Turgenev
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
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