Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov (1859)

5 Sourced Quotes

View all Ivan Goncharov Quotes

"And he was as intelligent as other people, his soul was pure and clear as crystal; he was noble and affectionate — and yet he did nothing!" "But why? What was the reason?" "The reason... what reason was there? Oblo-movism!"

Ivan Goncharov

"And he was as intelligent as other people, his soul was pure and clear as crystal; he was noble and affectionate—and yet he did nothing!" "But why? What was the reason?" "The reason... what reason was there? Oblomovism!"

Ivan Goncharov

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Ivan Goncharov

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

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

Ivan Goncharov