As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
NIKOLAI GOGOLSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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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.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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