Ivan Bunin quotes

  • If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

  • Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

  • Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  • The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

  • Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I.

  • The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then the rest of his deeds will be sound. And if it is bad, then the rest of his deeds will be bad.

  • My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

  • God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

  • The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

  • Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.