Quote

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

Nikolai Gogol

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nikolai Gogol
Age: 43 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 1
Died: 1852
Died: January 1
Author
Dramatist
Historian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Teacher
Writer
Nikolay Vasil'yevich Gogol'
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
N. V. Hohalʹ
Mykola Vasylʹovych Hoholʹ
Gogolʹ
N. V. Gogolʹ
Nicholai V. Gogol
Nikolay Vasil'yevich Gogol
Nicolai Gogol
Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
Nikolaus Gogol
Nikolay Gogol'
N. Gogolis
Nicolaus Gogol
Nikolay Gogol
Nikolaj Gogolj
Nikolaj Gogolʹ
Mikołaj Gogol
En Gogolli
Ko-kuo-
Strange
Thereafter
Turn
Slept
Turns
Asleep
Dream
Watched
Ends
Waking
Might
Became
Whole
Dreams
Life
Took

More quotes by Nikolai Gogol

Image
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
Nikolai Gogol
Image
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
...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 Gogol
Image
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
Nikolai Gogol
Image
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol