Doctor Zhivago Quotes

• Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.

  Boris Pasternak

  Song, Unique, People

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• You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

  Boris Pasternak

  Romantic, Couple, Kissing

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• And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Memories, Soul, Matter

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• That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Doctors, Dear God, Stomach

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• Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Keys, Joy

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• They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

  Boris Pasternak

  Passion, Clouds, Sky

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• What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Symphony, People

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• And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

  Boris Pasternak

  Heart, Fate

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• Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Journey, Men

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 9 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

  Boris Pasternak

  Break, Solitary

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• It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can´t place him in a category, it means that at least a part of him is what a human being ought to be. He has risen above himself, he has a grain of immortality.

  Boris Pasternak

  Mean, Men, Different

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• I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 13 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.

  Boris Pasternak

  Boredom, Impression, Dies

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• I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Hate, I Hate, Enough

  "Fictional character: Zhivago". "Doctor Zhivago", www.imdb.com. 1965.

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• How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

  Boris Pasternak

  Hurt, Doe, Alive

  "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.

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• Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

  Robert Bolt

  Heaven, Good Marriage, Made

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• Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Long, Understanding

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

  Boris Pasternak

  Fall, Insomnia, Light

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• One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but everyone speaks English. That seemed to me to be quite a good convention to follow.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Doctors, Speak English, Conventions

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are!" - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

  Boris Pasternak

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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• Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Kings, Doctors, Crow

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• I have found in the world of film many movies including Beyond Rangoon, The Crow, Gandhi, Doctor Zhivago, and The Big Blue, a French film, convey similar understandings. I'm sure the list is endless. These are just a few of my favorites.

  Frederick Lenz

  Blue, Doctors, Understanding

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• I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

  John Hughes

  Movie, School, Doctors

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• My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

  Dolly Parton

  Doctors, Wind, Play

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