Goncharov Oblomov Quotes

#1. Love was life's hardest school of all.
p. 259

Ivan Goncharov

#2. Now or neverI 'To be or not to be!' - Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again.

Ivan Goncharov

#3. I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. Life is duty and obligation, therefore love, too, is a duty. It's as if God sent it to me,' she said, looking up at the sky, 'and told me to love.'
p. 265

Ivan Goncharov

#5. I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.

Horst P. Horst

#6. Grief has a ruthless commonality.

John Stewart Wynne

#7. Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

Paul Haggis

#8. Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is impossible.
p. 265

Ivan Goncharov

#9. Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479

Ivan Goncharov

#10. But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
pp. 445-446

Ivan Goncharov

#11. When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.

Ivan Goncharov

#12. at what point do the rationalizations strip you of your humanity?

Megan Thomason