Author of quotes: Nikolay Gogol. Page 2

I'm exhausted. This is understandable: I am human.

It always seemed strange to me to demand letters without fail at a certain time. This is for official letters, but there is no rule for free, cordial letters: they will be written sooner and faster than you think, if only the heart requires them ...

It's time to take care of the soul at least a little, at least a little.

But a man is still a man. No today, no tomorrow, no the day after tomorrow, and on the fourth day, when you sit on it well, he will say yes. Some, after all, seem to be grimacing that he is inaccessible, but look at him closer, you will see: he simply raised the alarm for nothing.

There is no business, and even more so fair, in which it would be impossible to be in time, if only we have firmness and presence of mind, at least half an inch more than chicken.

Love, which comes from God, is firm and brings firmness to our character and makes us ourselves firm; but love not from God is shaky and rebellious, and makes us ourselves shaky, fearful, and unsteady.

My health is better. I had a good winter. At the end of it, only the melancholy came, which I tried in every possible way to defeat. But with the approach of spring, he could not resist. My nerves shook me all over, plunged me into such despondency, into such indecision, into such anguish from my own indecision, that I was completely weary.

It is necessary that we still have love for our statehood, and not mentally fly around all the lands, talking about Russia.

Now you need to be very smart and prudent in order to be able to say even a not very smart word.

A poet is only one who is more capable of feeling the beauty of creation than others.

Be merry, because despondency is a sin, and whoever is not merry, sins.

For a long time, human pride has been arranged this way: everywhere you want to stick your face in, even though this face does not look like anything.

Living abroad, you feel sick in Russia, and before you have time to come to Russia, you are already sick of Russia.

It is as easy and pleasant to lift a lady into the air as a glass filled with champagne is brought to the mouth.