More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.
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.
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
I am who I am and that's who I am
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all