Quotes by Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

…and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

Brain

Mosquitoes

Profound

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

Depth

Light

Soul

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

People

Poverty

Suffering

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

Cutting

Written

Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

Home

Horse

Song

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Elderly

Gogol

Young

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Accord

Beautiful

Thinking

As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man’s control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.

Literature

Passion

Sea

As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind… Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

Ideas

Long

Mind

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

Emotion

Journey

Years

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Accord

Achieve

Age

Ambition

Art

Authority

Beautiful

Belief

Bitter

Blame

Body

Book

Brain

Bread

Cake

Cards

Certain

Chairs

Character

Circles

Clothes

Company

Contrary

Courses

Cutting

Debris

Depth

Desire

Destruction

Differences

Different

Dream

Elderly

Emotion

Enjoy

Errors

Eye

Faces

Fall

Finishing

Fire

Gambling

Glasses

Goes On

Gogol

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Goodness

Governors

Happens

Heart

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Quotes by Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

…and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind… Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!

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