Oblomov Love Quotes

#1. I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring ... The more boring the better.

Evan Davis

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

Ivan Goncharov

#3. You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Karel Appel

#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. We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#6. 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

#7. You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

Henepola Gunaratana

#8. Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently.
Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
Silence awakens the sleeping seeker in me.
Silence enlightens the aspiring seeker in me.
Silence fulfills the self-giving seeker in me.

Sri Chinmoy

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

Ivan Goncharov