Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar, was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
Taras Shevchenko Quotes
Good people will bring you happiness, bad people will reward you with experience, the worst ones will teach you a lesson, and the best ones will give you memories. Appreciate each one.
—Taras Shevchenko
The fool fears and retreats from evil, because he does not know how to overcome it, and the wise man trusts himself, fights evil and defeats it.
—Taras Shevchenko
Whoever does not lose heart and does not cry, also never rejoices.
—Taras Shevchenko
It is better to love and do than to write and speak.
—Taras Shevchenko
The door to the soul, like the door to the house, must be kept closed. A cold wind blows into the door when it’s open, brings in all kinds of dirt and bad people.
—Taras Shevchenko
Seeing among the gloomy people an open pleasant smile addressed to you, you begin to understand that everything is not so bad in this world, there is a lot of good ahead of you.
—Taras Shevchenko
It is true that in addition to God and the devil in our soul there is something else, so terrible that the heart chills, if you open it even a little.
—Taras Shevchenko
I don’t remember who exactly, but some deep heart expert said that the surest measurement of friendship is money. And his statement is fair. A true, true friendship that is only expressed in critical, difficult cases, and even it demands this cold yardstick. The most lively, animated language of friendship is money. And the greater the need, the more sincere the friendship, driving away this hungry witch.
—Taras Shevchenko
Love is a life-giving fire in the human soul, and everything created by man under the influence of this feeling is marked by the seal of life and poetry.
—Taras Shevchenko
All has gone to rest, and I don’t know whether I’m alive or will live or whether I’m rushing like this through the world for I’m not longer weeping or laughing.
—Taras Shevchenko
It’s not fun to live in the world,
If the heart has no one to love.
—Taras Shevchenko
I did not die in captivity, I will not die in the wild.
—Taras Shevchenko
Ukraine, Ukraine! My heart, my mother! When I remember your fate, my heart will weep!
—Taras Shevchenko
There are a lot of evil people around, and that’s because they have no friends. Communication with people – with mom, grandmother, a dog – is the best thing that happens to you in this life. Not counting shoes and bags, of course.
—Taras Shevchenko
The world is not without good people and not without evil ones. Otherwise, how would we know which ones are good.
—Taras Shevchenko
There is no cure for the slanderer’s foul language.
—Taras Shevchenko
Your home has its own truth and power and will!
—Taras Shevchenko
It is better to let people be who and what they are than to take them for who and what they are not.
—Taras Shevchenko
A person’s character is best revealed when he describes the character of another person.
—Taras Shevchenko
An ordinary person expects good or bad from the outside, and a thinking person expects that from within.
—Taras Shevchenko
The life of every person is a fairy tale written with the fingers of God.
—Taras Shevchenko
In whom there is no love for the native country,
Those hearts are poor cripples.
—Taras Shevchenko
On the unforgettable day of my confirmation, I told myself that they would not make a soldier out of me. They didn’t. Not only have I not studied a single gun technique deeply, even superficially. And it flatters my ego. Childishness — and nothing more.
—Taras Shevchenko
Nice privacy! Nothing in life can be sweeter, more charming than solitude, especially in the face of the smiling, blossoming beauty of Mother Nature. Under its sweet magical charm, a person involuntarily plunges into himself and sees God on earth, as the poet says.
—Taras Shevchenko
There is such a breed of people – there is so much anger in them that they are ready to slaughter themselves.
—Taras Shevchenko
Evil people do not look into children’s eyes for fear of being poisoned by their purity.
—Taras Shevchenko
Money comes and goes, happiness is not in them. The most important thing in the world will always be the people who were with you in the most difficult times.
—Taras Shevchenko
There are no good friends, no bad friends, there are only people you want to be with, who you need to be with, and who have found a place in your heart.
—Taras Shevchenko
A man is like the Moon, he also has a dark side that he never shows to anyone.
—Taras Shevchenko
Stay away from those small people who want to deprive you of your ambitions. Instead, befriend great people.
—Taras Shevchenko