Character: Evgeny Bazarov

It's amazing how a person still believes in words. They will tell him, for example, a fool and not beat him, he will be sad; they will call him a smart girl and they will not give him money - he will feel pleasure.

It pleases you to scold yourself; but we are bored - give us others! we need to break others!

I am a poor man, but I still have not accepted alms.

Whatever slander may be cast on a man, he, in fact, deserves twenty times worse than that.

Yes, for example, you said today, passing by the hut of our elder Philip, - it is so nice, white, - now, you said, Russia will then reach perfection when the last peasant has the same room, and each of us should contribute to this ...

- I don't know what to tell you. A real person should not care about this; a real person is one about whom there is nothing to think about, but whom one must obey or hate.

- Where? I will answer you like an echo: where?

And I think: I’m lying here under a stack ... The narrow place that I occupy is so tiny in comparison with the rest of the space where I am not and where there is no concern for me; and the part of the time that I will be able to live is so insignificant before eternity, where I was not and will not be ... And in this atom, in this mathematical point, the blood circulates, the brain works, it also wants something ... What a disgrace ! What nonsense!

That aspen reminds me of my childhood; it grows on the edge of a hole left from a brick shed, and at that time I was sure that this hole and the aspen had a special talisman: I never got bored around them. I didn't realize then that I wasn't bored because I was a child. Well, now I'm an adult, the talisman doesn't work.

Each person hangs by a thread, the abyss can turn around under him every minute, and he still invents all sorts of troubles for himself, spoils his life.

- You are happier than me.

- It's none of my business; it's up to someone else to figure out what my price is. The main thing is to be able to surrender.

- Yes, understand; everyone will have the same spleen.

A piece of meat is better than a piece of bread, even from a chemical point of view.