Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved

Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.