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Farewell to Matyora QUOTES

Farewell to Matyora QUOTES

1 " Life was life so that it could go on, it could take everything and survive anywhere, even on bare rock or shifting sands, and if necessary, even under water, but why torture it this way for no good reason, creating totally unnecessary difficulties for people, why worry about small conveniences and create major inconveniences? "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

2 " Everything that lived on earth had one meaning only: to serve. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

3 " Who could say why worthwhile people have worthless children? "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

4 " There's nothing left holy in the world for you. Herods! "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

5 " The world is going to crack in half: that's what is happening! And it will break across us, the old people...we don't belong here or there. Lord have mercy! "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

6 " Of course, you could live without asking questions, just live the way life comes, float with the current, but, I'm crazy that way: I must know why and wherefore, dig down to the truth myself. That's why I'm a man. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

7 " The new settlement was no nearer or dearer to her than, say, America, where they said people, in order to not wear out their feet, walked on their heads. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

8 " Live, Darya, as long as you're alive, Good or bad, you live, that's what your life has to be. If you swim in sorrow and anger and you get exhausted and wanted to join us-- don't; you live, move, make the world remember that we once lived there. No one's ever been afraid to come join us, there's never been and never will be such a person in our family. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

9 " When Father was dying, he said: 'Darya don't take on too much --you'll wear yourself out, you take on only the most important thing: to have a conscience and not to be bothered by it. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

10 " In the old days conscience was very important. If someone tried living without one, it was obvious right away, everyone lived an open life then. There were all kinds of people then, too. Some would have been happy to follow their conscience, but what do you do if you're born without one? You can't buy it with money. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

11 " Oh don't torture my heart! I'll die of sadness in one week there. Living among strangers! How can you transplant an old tree? "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

12 " Let them drown me, if that's what they want. Let them. You die once. What's there to be afraid of? "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

13 " In the old days, you could see it: whether a person had it or not. Those who had it were conscientious, those without it were conscienceless. And now only the devil can tell, everything is mixed up in one pile. They bring it up needlessly with every word, mauling the poor thing so much it's barely alive. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

14 " And our conscience is getting old, its an old woman, and no one looks at it anymore. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

15 " There was nothing more unfair in the world than when something, be it tree or man, lived on to uselessness, to the point when it became a burden; that of the multitude of sins let loose upon the world to be prayed away and redeemed, this was the only one that was unbearable. The tree at least would fall, rot, and fertilize the earth. But man? Is he at least good for that? Then why bear old age if it brings nothing but discomfort and suffering? "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

16 " Why seek some higher truth and service, when all the truth is in the fact that you're worth nothing and won't be worth anything anymore, that everything that you came into the world to do, you've done long ago, and that your only work now is to be a burden to others. Is that so? Is it? "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

17 " She had to live a long and wretched life to admit to herself at its end that she hadn't understood anything about it. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

18 " It's still not tea without a samovar. Just water, that's all. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

19 " It's sinful with him and lonely without him. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora

20 " Everything that just recently had seemed eternal and solid as rock was so quickly turned into rack and ruin you just wanted to shut your eyes and forget. "

― Valentin Rasputin , Farewell to Matyora