Vivek's+Quotes+Folder

__**Character of Pechorin**__

“The turmoil of life has left me with a few ideas, but no feelings.”

“What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.” “I've got an unfortunate character.”

“The air is pure, as the kiss of a child, the sun in bright, the sky blue – what more does one want? What need have we here of passions, desires, regrets?” //“//There are two men within me - one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reflects and judges him. In an hour's time the first may be leaving you and the world for ever, and the second? ... the second? ...”


 * __Role of Women__**

"Women! Women! Who can understand them?"

"Oh women, women! Who really does understand them? Their smiles contradict their glances, their words promise and beguile, but their tone of voice repulses. They either figure out in a flash your innermost thought or they don't get the most obvious hint."

“I must confess I don’t really like strong-willed women. That’s not their role in life!”

“She was a strange creature”

"It is hard to convince women of anything--they must be brought to a point where they will convince themselves."

__**Fate**__

“If only people thought more about it, they would see that life is not woth worrying about so much.” “If predestination really exists, why have we been given free-will and reason? Why do we have to give an account of our deeds?”

//“//What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life.”


 * __Heroic Failure__**

//“//When I think of imminent and possible death, I think only of myself, some do not even do that.”

"My whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day."

"Passions are nothing more than ideas at the first stage of their development."