#annaakhmatova
QUOTE STARTERS : IV ANNA AKHMATOVA
- ❛ You will hear thunder and remember me. ❜
- ❛ If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly. ❜
- ❛ I seem to myself an accidental guest in this dreadful body. ❜
- ❛ Call me a sinner, mock me maliciously. ❜
- ❛ I, from the very beginning, seemed to myself like someone’s dream or delirium. Or a reflection in someone else’s mirror. Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. ❜
- ❛ I knew the list of crimes that I was destined to commit. ❜
- ❛ The future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future. ❜
- ❛ You are untranslatable into any one tongue. ❜
- ❛ I was hoping my silence would fit yours. ❜
- ❛ See, we were never about butterflies. All about us is unearthly and radiant. ❜
- ❛ You do not know just what you’ve been forgiven. ❜
- ❛ I need to slaughter my memory. ❜
- ❛ Forgive me that I appeared to you in waking dreams. ❜
- ❛ I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy. ❜
- ❛ I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death. ❜
- ❛ Wild honey smells of freedom. But gold smells of nothing. ❜
- ❛ You are three times more beautiful than angels. ❜
- ❛ I will kill you without spilling your blood on the ground, not touching you with my hand, not giving you one glance. ❜
- ❛ You invented me. There is no such earthly being. ❜
- ❛ You’re late. Way too late. I’m glad to see you, nonetheless. ❜
- ❛ Forgive me that I felt forsaken. Forgive me that I kept mistaking too many others for you. ❜
- ❛ Real tenderness can’t be confused, it’s quiet and can’t be heard. ❜
- ❛ What else lived in that house besides us? ❜
- ❛ How unhappy we are together! ❜
- ❛ I defend not my voice, but my silence. ❜
- ❛ Without love, I’m more at ease, I’m sure. ❜
- ❛ I’ve got no more tears or explanations. ❜
- ❛ I’m not complaining. Happiness is not for me. ❜
- ❛ Are you not the only tie between good and evil, earthly pits and paradise? ❜
- ❛ In the morning we shall find out who has died in the night. ❜
