Quotes by Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn’t got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of ‘evidence’ can awaken it.

Born

Ears

Musical

all large cities are alike at night.

Cities

Large Cities

Night

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Half

Kindness

People

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

Alive

Earth

Names

For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.

Father

Russia

Spiritual

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

Assistance

Destiny

Halfway

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Easy

Grants

He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death… Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. … He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. … The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh.

Eye

Hands

War

History is a stern judge.

Decision

History

Judging

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

People

Shadow

Tree

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Alive

Ambition

Assistance

Azaleas

Beautiful

Bible

Born

Cities

Country

Decision

Destiny

Ears

Earth

Easy

Eye

Father

Fire

Gay

Government

Grants

Gratitude

Half

Halfway

Hands

Hatred

Healthy

History

Human Nature

Impossible

Judging

Kindness

Large Cities

Letters

Mean

Meaningful

Musical

Names

Nature

Night

Passion

People

Powerful

Reality

Regimes

Religious

Rhythm Of Life

Russia

Shadow

Sight

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Quotes by Svetlana Alliluyeva

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn’t got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of ‘evidence’ can awaken it.

all large cities are alike at night.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.

Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

History is a stern judge.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

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