More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
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.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.