"To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness."
― Ivan Turgenev
Topic(s):
Sympathy
― Ivan Turgenev
More From Ivan Turgenev
- "Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
- "Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew."
- "In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn’t know art, just as it doesn’t know freedom, just as it doesn’t know goodness."
More In Sympathy
- "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."― Agatha Christie
- "Here’s my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there’s this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering."― Carl Hiaasen
- "People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."― Margaret Cho