I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with e…

- Mikhail Lermontov

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an ev…

- Mikhail Lermontov

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

- Mikhail Lermontov

Happiness comes the way the wind blows.

- Mikhail Lermontov

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

- Mikhail Lermontov

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.

- Mikhail Lermontov

I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom.

- Mikhail Lermontov

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

- Mikhail Lermontov

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

- Mikhail Lermontov