More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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 am who I am and that's who I am
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.