Russian Nonfiction Quotes

#1. Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

Kate Meader

#2. I always think about the past, it's so large and bright.

Anna Akhmatova

#3. Jokes have a relation to the unconscious.'
'Jokes may indeed have a relation to the unconscious. But also: sometimes a joke is just a joke.'
'Directed against-'
'Directed against you. Whom else? The man who doesn't laugh. The man who can't take a joke.

J.M. Coetzee

#4. Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.

Rajneesh

#5. I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.

Tom Brady

#6. Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.

Alex Trebek

#7. None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

Sheri Dew

#8. We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Marjane Satrapi

#9. For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?

(from The Church is One)

Aleksey Khomiakov

#10. In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.

Edith Grossman