More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
I am who I am and that's who I am