Explore
Gaia Soulmates

Welcome to Gaia Community!

We're a little different than most social networks. Like you, we're here for a reason! Our goal? To inspire and empower you to realize your purpose, so that you can do the same for others, and so that, together, we can contribute to a better world.

Come join us... not only can you develop your own library of quotations and receive daily inspiration and wisdom, you'll be able to experience an emerging world of others who share your vision for a positive future.

Spiritual Cinema Circle
 Advertising keeps Gaia free! Interested in sponsoring us?
Send a Quotation Card

Did you know you can turn any of the short quotes on our site into an e-card?

Simply locate the quote you'd like to send, and if it fits on our card, you'll see an option for Send as greeting on the left side of the quote.

Or, if you'd like a more classic Greeting card, you can visit our Gaia Greeting Gallery.

Quote Size: All | Short | Tall | Grande | Venti

Quotes by Boris Pasternak

Even so, one step from my grave,
I believe that cruelty, spite,
The powers of darkness will in time
Be crushed by the spirit of light.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Source: An American Trapped in a Communist Paradise: An Historical Autobiography
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: light, spirit, time
Quote

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.  Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth.  It can't be forever violated with impunity.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Source: Doctor Zhivago
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: body, life, soul, space
Quote

You fall into my arms.
You are the good gift of destruction's path,
When life sickens more than disease
And boldness is the root of beauty -
Which draws us together.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Source: A Captive of Time
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: life
Quote

Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Source: Dr. Zhivago
Contributed by: Allison. More quotes added by MellowFellow'sYellowCello from this | all sources
Add Comment Print Permalink
Quote

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
 
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: gifts, life, surprises
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
 
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: life, truth
Quote

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Source: Doctor Zhivago, 1958, The Poems of Yurii Zhivago, Winter Night, st. 7
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: angels, temptation
Quote

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
 
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: age, atoms, existence, guests, learning, security, world
Quote

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Source: Hamlet, 1946
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: hypocrisy, life, simplicity
Quote

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
 
Add Comment Print Permalink
More quotes about: generations, truth
Quote
Btn_send-quote-as-greeting
Page 1 of 212
Showing 1 - 10 of 20 Quotes