Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time. Leonid Andreyev More Quotes by Leonid Andreyev More Quotes From Leonid Andreyev I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me. Leonid Andreyev hate dream book Only the dead know the truth. Leonid Andreyev truth knows Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger. Leonid Andreyev generosity animal men Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long. Leonid Andreyev footsteps blind long Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Leonid Andreyev salt taste love-is Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark. Leonid Andreyev stars dark sleep What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet. Leonid Andreyev drowning asking men The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before. Leonid Andreyev useless would-be today The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. Leonid Andreyev reason loss war
