Author of quotes: Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Page 2

Or is slander from friends poisonous?

You extended your little hands to me, smiled... as if asking for protection... and I did not have my own piece of bread.

- Yes - now, because you love me!..

What is the greatest good and evil? - two ends of an invisible chain that converge, moving away from each other.

Listen, what if my soul is worse than my appearance? but am I to blame... I asked nothing from people except bread - they added contempt and ridicule to it... I had heaven, earth and myself, I was rich in all feelings... I saw the sun and was content... But gradually everything disappeared: one thought, one discovery, one drop of poison - beware of this thought, Olga.

People, when they suffer, are usually submissive; but if once they managed to throw off their burden, then the lamb turns into a tiger: the oppressed becomes the oppressor and pays a hundredfold - and then woe to the vanquished!..

Their clothes were images of their souls: black, torn.

I am either God or nobody!

How are you, how are you, my iron friend.

But a bright tear is a pearl of suffering.

Can you tell your soul?

For his honor, as for his own.

Listen, I said, either shoot yourself, or hang up your gun in its original place and go to bed.

I believe, I believe
Though he was not experienced
What could the monk not to be a hypocrite
And live as you pledged on oath;
The kisses and smiles
People are not always insidious,
Near that small errors
Sometimes they forgive,
That time heals the pain,
That the world created for happiness,
That virtue is not the name.
And life is more than a dream!..