More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
I am who I am and that's who I am
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.