Nikolai GogolAt 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 … ▶363Reading
Nikolai GogolA word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe. ✨ Nikolai Gogol (1936). Dead Souls342Death
Nikolai GogolI am who I am and that's who I am375Time
Nikolai GogolAlso, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. ✨ Nikolai Gogol (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Nikolai Gogol (Illustrated), p.132, Delphi Classics334Politics
Nikolai Gogol[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. 357DeathLifeReading
Nikolai GogolThey're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for hi… ▶368Thought
Nikolai GogolHowever stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. ✨ Nikolai Gogol (2011). Dead Souls: A Novel, p.174, Vintage357DeathReadingTime
Nikolai GogolEverything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man. ✨ Nikolai Gogol (2011). Dead Souls: A Novel, p.128, Vintage324DeathReadingTruth
Nikolai GogolSteeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?302Reading
Nikolai GogolThe longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.336HumorSadness
Nikolai GogolHe 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 c… ▶304HopeHumanityLove
Nikolai GogolMan is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be … ▶304Politics
Nikolai GogolIt is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. ✨ The Inspector General. Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.316Humor
Nikolai GogolBut there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and fi… ▶252Reading
Nikolai GogolYou can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.274Hope
Nikolai GogolLike all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder… ▶274LoveTime
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. ✨ Nikolai Go… ▶241DeathThought
Nikolai GogolTwo turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die285DeathSadness
Nikolai GogolLet me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.3210Reading
Nikolai GogolWe ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.253Philosophy
Nikolai GogolAs 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 ma… ▶222DeathHumanityLove
Nikolai GogolHow much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners. ✨ Nikolai Gogol (2011). The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, p.397, Vintage211Thought
Nikolai GogolPerfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all ✨ Nikolai Gogol (2011). The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, p.323, Vintage245Time
Nikolai GogolThis was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so t… ▶223DeathPoliticsReading
Nikolai GogolBut youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.256HopeLifeLove
Nikolai GogolWhat are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself. ✨ Nikolai Gogol (2017). The Inspector-General (illustrated), p.109, Clap Publishing, LLC.213Humor
Nikolai GogolThe 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 f… ▶268DeathHumorReading
Nikolai GogolEverywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.214LifeSadnessTime
Nikolai GogolWe have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.181Life
Nikolai GogolWhat is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it … ▶237Love
