Anna Akhmatova Quotes.

1. "You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms..."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

2. "Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

3. "My shadow serves as the friend I crave."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

4. "Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

5. "I myself, 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. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

6. "You do not know just what you've been forgiven."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

7. "The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

8. "Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

9. "Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova

10. "That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest."
- Quote by Anna Akhmatova