More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
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.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
I am who I am and that's who I am
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.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.