Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

I think I know the feeling of 'liking' someone, but I don't know what it means to 'love.'

Jealousy. Depression. Love. They pretty much demonstrate the whole range of human emotion.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

That idea of comparison is what fans do. That's why fans exist. They believe in something and something connects to them, and they have passionate feelings and opinions about films.

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

We love and we feel and we try and we hope.

You're in love, that's what your problem is.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.