Ivan Ilych Quotes

#1. Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. So on receiving the news of Ivan Ilych's death the first thought of each of the gentlemen in that private room was of the changes and promotions it might occasion among themselves

Leo Tolstoy

#3. What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Conversation sprang up as to the elegance and realism of her acting -- the sort of conversation that is always repeated and is always the same. In the midst of the conversation Fedor Petrovich glanced at Ivan Ilych and became silent. The others also looked at him and grew silent. Ivan

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

Frederic Bastiat

#6. It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Jonny Greenwood

#7. Virtually everything inside me had spilled out and been lost. I was completely new, but I was also completely empty. I had to fill in that blank, little by little. With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called 'I

Haruki Murakami

#8. There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

Max Lucado

#9. I have another horse, Kate Connolly, if you want to ride one of the capaill uisce

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing

Clementine Von Radics

#11. in a curious and unanticipated way, we really do welcome the birth of our child. There

Adrienne Rich

#12. when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

Rachel Kushner

#14. New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

Douglas Rushkoff

#15. You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Phil McGraw

#16. Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Steven Pressfield

#17. You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

Bob Dylan