More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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.
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
