Alexander Sergejevič Puškin citáty

„Velké bolesti jsou němé.“

„Je třeba mít na své straně většinu - proto neurážejme hlupáky.“

„Existují city, které nelze vyslovit jinak než mlčením.“

„Hlupák se nemění, neboť čas ho míjí a zkušenost se mu vyhýbá.“

„Smích, lítost a hrůza jsou tři struny naší fantazie.“

„Když miluji, není nic jiného.“

„Nic nerozněcuje lásku jako povzbuzující poznámka někoho třetího. Láska je slepá a nedůvěřuje sama sobě, chvatně se chytá každé opory.“

„Čtení je nejlepší učení. Sledovat myšlenky velkého člověka - to je ta nejzajímavější věda.“

„Sami sebou jsme Napoleony,
a ostatních tváří milióny,
jsou pro nás jen podnoží.
Cit, ten už člověk odloží.“

„Ceníme si více povznášejícího klamu než tmy přízemních pravd.“

„Údery kladiva drtí sklo a zpevňují železo.“

„Nikde nenajdete poezii, jestliže ji nenosíte v sobě.“

„Pocit uzdravení je z nejpříjemnějších.“

„Kterýsi lord, známý lenoch, parodoval pro svého syna známé rčení: "Nedělej sám, co za tebe může udělat jiný". Známý egoista k tomu dodal: "Nedělej nikdy pro druhého, co můžeš udělat pro sebe".“

„Inspirace je stav, v němž duše živěji vnímá dojmy, chápe a třídí představy, a tedy je i lépe objasňuje. Je stejně nutná v geometrii jako v poezii.“

„Však po salonu rozbíhá se - jen tlach jak balet na ledě.“

„Je naprosto nutné popsat současné události, aby se na nás mohli potomci odvolávat.“

„Básník si sám vybírá své téma! Ano, jen on tuší, co je třeba, co je důležité. Jinak bude spisovatel jen pisálkem na objednávku, grafomanem, ne skutečným umělcem.“

„Zvyk nám shůry seslán byl, aby nám štěstí nahradil.“

„Hra mě tuze zajímá, ale neumím obětovat nezbytné za naději, že získám zbytečné.“

„Sláva je jasná záplata na hadrech.“

„Nad velké množství pravd je nám dražší povznášející klam.“

„Bezmyšlenkovitost je největší hřích rozumu.“

„Balet je tanec zrozený z lidské duše.“

„Kterýsi lord, známý lenoch, parodoval pro svého syna známé rčení: „Nedělej sám, co za tebe může udělat jiný.““

„Sbohem moji přátelé“

“A man who's active and incisive
can yet keep nail-care much in mind:
why fight what's known to be decisive?
custom is despot of mankind.”

“God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.”

“And thus He mused: "From here, indeed
Shall we strike terror in the Swede?
And here a city by our labor
Founded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;
"Here cut" - so Nature gives command -
Your window through on Europe; stand
Firm-footed by the sea, unchanging!”

“But, as it is, this pied collection
begs your indulgence — it's been spun
from threads both sad and humoristic,
themes popular or idealistic,
products of carefree hours, of fun,
of sleeplessness, faint inspirations,
of powers unripe, or on the wane,
of reason's icy intimations,
and records of a heart in pain.”

“Pimen [writing in front of a sacred lamp]:
One more, the final record, and my annals
Are ended, and fulfilled the duty laid
By God on me a sinner. Not in vain
Hath God appointed me for many years
A witness, teaching me the art of letters;
A day will come when some laborious monk
Will bring to light my zealous, nameless toil,
Kindle, as I, his lamp, and from the parchment
Shaking the dust of ages will transcribe
My true narrations.”

“Tis time, my friend, ‘tis time!
For rest the heart is aching;
Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking
Fragments of being, while together you and I
Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.”

“The less we show our love to a woman,
Or please her less, and neglect our duty,
The more we trap and ruin her surely
In the flattering toils of philandery.”

“Unforced, as conversation passed,
he had the talent of saluting
felicitously every theme,
of listening like a judge-supreme
while serious topics were disputing,
or, with an epigram-surprise,
of kindling smiles in ladies' eyes.”

“Tormented by spiritual thirst,
I dragged myself through a somber desert.
And a six-winged seraph
Appeared to meet me at the crossing of the ways.
He touched my eyes
With fingers as light as a dream:
And my prophetic eyes opened
Like those of a frightened eagle.
He touched my ears
And they were filled with noise and ringing:
And I heard the shuddering of the heavens,
And the flight of the angels in the heights,
And the movement of the beasts of the sea under the waters,
And the sound of the vine growing in the valley.
He bent down to my mouth
And tore out my tongue,
Sinful, decitful, and given to idle talk;
with the right hand steeped in blood
He inserted the tongue of a wise serpent,
Into my benumbed mouth.
He clove my breast with a sword,
And plucked out my quivering heart,
And thrust a coal of live fire
Into my gaping breast.
Like a corpse I lay in the desert.
And the voice of God called out to me:
'Arise, O prophet, see and hear,
Be filled with my will,
Go forth over land and sea,
And set the hearts of men on fire with your Word.”

“What grace could all your worldly power bring
To One whose crown of thorns has made him King,
The Christ who gave His body to the flails,
Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails?
Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.”

“I have come to you against my wish," she said in a firm voice: "but I have been ordered to grant your request. Three, seven, ace, will win for you if played in succession, but only on these conditions: that you do not play more than one card in twenty-four hours, and that you never play again during the rest of your life. I forgive you my death, on condition that you marry my companion, Lizaveta Ivanovna.”

“There yet remains but one concluding tale,
And then this chronicle of mine is ended—
Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me,
A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord
Put me to witness much for many years
And educate me in the love of books.
One day some indefatigable monk
Will find my conscientious, unsigned work;
Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp
And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust,
He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.”

“Always contented with his life,
and with his dinner, and his wife.”

“The clock of doom had struck as fated;
the poet, without a sound,
let fall his pistol on the ground.”

“The heavy hanging chains shall fall,
The walls shall crumble at the word,
And Freedom greet you with the light
And brothers give you back the sword.”

“Mosalsky: Good folk! Maria Godunov and her son Feodor have poisoned themselves. We have seen their dead bodies. [The People are silent with horror. ] Why are ye silent? Cry, Long live the Tsar Dimitry Ivanovich! [The People are speechless. ]”

“God grant you, friends, a helping hand—
In cares of state and private plights,
In rowdy feasts of friendship's band,
In passion's sweet and secret rites!
God grant you, friends, a helping hand—
In daily woes and days of strife,
On vacant sa, in distant land,
In every black abyss of life!”

“Sad that our finest aspiration
Our freshest dreams and meditations,
In swift succession should decay,
Like Autumn leaves that rot away.”

“The illness with which he'd been smitten
should have been analysed when caught,
something like spleen, that scourge of Britain,
or Russia's chondria, for short.”

“Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather
of mind got clarity new-found;
now free, I once more weave together
emotion, thought, and magic sound.”

“When the loud day for men who sow and reap
Grows still, and on the silence of the town
The insubstantial veils of night and sleep,
The meed of the day's labour, settle down,
Then for me in the stillness of the night
The wasting, watchful hours drag on their course,
And in the idle darkness comes the bite
Of all the burning serpents of remorse;
Dreams seethe; and fretful infelicities
Are swarming in my over-burdened soul,
And Memory before my wakeful eyes
With noiseless hand unwinds her lengthy scroll.
Then, as with loathing I peruse the years,
I tremble, and I curse my natal day,
Wail bitterly, and bitterly shed tears,
But cannot wash the woeful script away.”

“Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room Number 17 of the Obukhov Hospital. He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: "Three, seven, ace!"”

“Send me, Almighty, I petition,
In porticoes or at a ball
No bonneted academician,
No seminarist in a yellow shawl!
No more than in red lips unsmiling
Can I find anything beguiling
In grammar-perfect Russian speech.
What purist magazines beseech,
A novel breed of belles may heed it,
And bend us (for my life of sin)
To strict grammatic discipline,
Prescribing meter, too, where needed;
But I - what is all this to me?
I like things as they used to be”

“Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.”

“Ah! heavy art thou, crown of Monomakh!”

“"The bread of the stranger is bitter," says Dante, "and his staircase hard to climb." But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?”

“Come purge my soul, Thou Master of my days,
Of vain and empty words, of idle ways,
Of base ambition and the urge to rule;
That hidden serpent that corrupts a fool;
and grant me, Lord, to see my sins alone.
That I not call my brother to atone;
Make chaste my heart and lend me from above
Thy fortitude, humility, and love.”

“Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.”

“Moscow… how many strains are fusing
in that one sound, for Russian hearts!
what store of riches it imparts!”