More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.