More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
I am who I am and that's who I am
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
