More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.