Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Maxim Gorky
Age: 68 †
Born: 1868
Born: March 14
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Dramaturge
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
Maksim Gor'ky
Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov
Aleksey Peshkov
Maksim Gorky
Gorky
Maxim Gorki
Bigs
Learn
Precious
Inspirational
Determination
Hands
Hold
Looks
Small
Always
Happiness
Happy
Success
More quotes by Maxim Gorky
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Maxim Gorky
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
Maxim Gorky
The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
Maxim Gorky
What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.
Maxim Gorky
It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.
Maxim Gorky
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
Maxim Gorky
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
Maxim Gorky
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
Maxim Gorky
An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
Maxim Gorky
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
Maxim Gorky
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
Maxim Gorky
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
Maxim Gorky
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
Maxim Gorky
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable love your fellows console the afflicted pardon those who have done you wrong.
Maxim Gorky
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
Maxim Gorky
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
Maxim Gorky
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - Swan Song is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
Maxim Gorky
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
Maxim Gorky
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Maxim Gorky
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
Maxim Gorky
