Yury Andreyevich Zhivago Quotes

″[That] was why Yura was so shaken by his mother’s death, because he had been lost in that forest with her and was suddenly left alone in it, without her.”

“The unfree man always idolizes his slavery.”

“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness . . . Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with those who don’t love it sufficiently.”

“I used to be in a very revolutionary mood, but now I think that we’ll gain nothing by violence.”

“It’s impossible, without its affecting your health, to show yourself day after day contrary to what you feel.”

“Just now I was looking out the window of the train and thinking. What can be higher than peace in the family and work? The rest isn’t in our power.”

“The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off, and we and all the people find ourselves under the open sky.”

“I never turn back halfway, never abandon what I’ve started.”

“It was against the rules to remain indifferent to it.”

“They were all there, all side by side, and some did not recognize each other, while others had never known each other.”

“It’s not for nothing that you stand at the end of my life ... just as ... at its beginning.”