I shall laugh my bitter laugh. Nikolai Gogol More Quotes by Nikolai Gogol More Quotes From Nikolai Gogol Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. Nikolai Gogol gogolelderlyyoung There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker. Nikolai Gogol laughterdifferentmean Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Nikolai Gogol whirlwindhorsehome At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on. Nikolai Gogol voicereadingmen The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. Nikolai Gogol destructiontownsauthority it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life. Nikolai Gogol facesjobsart I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many. Nikolai Gogol everythingknowmeguilty The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable. Nikolai Gogol womangreatchillsociety Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. Nikolai Gogol passionshumanseainspirational Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you? Nikolai Gogol yournothingmeyou I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind. Nikolai Gogol i-amnothingsoulmind The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed. Nikolai Gogol mustmorethingshigher Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being. Nikolai Gogol lookmanwisecharacter Sometimes, it is enough for us to hold out a hand to receive help. It is not we who help; God helps, granting His power to the powerless word. Nikolai Gogol powerenoughgodsometimes I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless. Nikolai Gogol meprayerlifebelieve Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it. Nikolai Gogol nothingplacebodyattention For a man, the soul of a woman is a preserving talisman, guarding him from moral infections; it is a power holding him to the straight path, a guide leading him back from the crooked to the straight. On the other hand, the soul of a woman can be his evil and ruin him forever. Nikolai Gogol womanmansoulpower Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips. Nikolai Gogol namelipsgodevil If you have not first pondered the entire situation of the man whom you wish to help, and if you have not brought with you instructions for him to follow henceforth in leading his life, he will not receive great good from your help. Nikolai Gogol goodyoumanlife
