Top 100 Nikolai's Quotes
#1. Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I'll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want."
"I don't need any of that. Just ... " He dropped Nikolai's hand and looked away. "Deserve her.
Leigh Bardugo
#2. And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted."
"That's hardly limiting," he said.
Leigh Bardugo
#3. Nikolai's a badass Russian. Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.
Larry Correia
#4. But until now I did not understand; everything was in a sort of mist. And I believe it all arose from believing that the brain is in the head. It's not so at all; it comes with the wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea.
Nikolai Gogol
#5. I hereby certify that the bearer of this note, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the night in question at Satan's ball, having been lured there in a transportational capacity ... Hella, put in parentheses! And write 'hog.' Signed- Behemoth.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#6. In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#8. I don't know why people are so afraid of dying. It only takes a moment.
Nikolai Grozni
#9. There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
Nikolai Gogol
#10. The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#11. Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength. Unique.
Ruta Sepetys
#12. Nikolai felt his heart breaking at the unfairness of a universe which let good people suffer while evildoers walked free and unpunished.
Adele Hamaludin
#13. You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?" I asked as I closed the book's cover and headed for the door. "They always end up dead.
Leigh Bardugo
#14. The King scowled. "She is a traitor to the crown. I want her head."
To my surprise, Genya said to Nikolai, "I will take my punishment if he takes his.
Leigh Bardugo
#15. He hesitated. Don't you see? You're like a favorite painting. A found masterpiece, I loved both for things remembered and those newly discovered.
Amanda Gray
#16. Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#18. being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.
Nikolai Gogol
#19. The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little.
Nikolai Gogol
#20. Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?"
"Still old and blind," she snarled.
"And charming," Nikolai drawled. "Never forget charming."
"Whelp."
"Hag."
"What do you want, pest?
Leigh Bardugo
#21. A quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner ...
Nikolai Gogol
#22. It
does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom
is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but
encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his
soul, refreshed by water.
Nikolai Gogol
#23. They'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 him to know.
Nikolai Gogol
#24. Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book ...
Nikolai Gogol
#25. What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
Nikolai Gogol
#26. The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#27. 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
#28. (..) and they would imprint upon each other's lips such a long and languishing kiss, that a little straw cigar might have been smoked during the time it lasted.
Nikolai Gogol
#29. However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Nikolai Gogol
#30. Not bad looking? He's damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer, oh, and an even better shot.
Leigh Bardugo
#31. Myst hasn't returned yet, But you know that, or else you'd both be naked and fornicating on the front lawn"
"The night's young. Give us time, and it was a field a mile away."
A Valkyrie and Nikolai Wroth pg 322
Kresley Cole
#32. 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
#33. I already unleashed Baghra on Nikolai. He's going to think I stockpile vicious old women.
Leigh Bardugo
#34. In the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#35. The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
Nikolai Gogol
#38. I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.
Nikolai Gogol
#39. Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai.
"What?"
"About your having diarrhea."
"For you I'd get dysentery."
"Now that's friendship.
Orson Scott Card
#40. I love [Nikolai] Gogol's great eye for idiot behavior. Gogol said that life is so tragic, so stupendously sad that we'd better laugh a lot and enjoy ourselves. You either get a sense of humor going or you go under.
Mel Brooks
#41. Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.
Vladimir Nabokov
#42. One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it.
Nikolai Gogol
#43. It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol
#44. Russia! Russia ... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
Nikolai Gogol
#45. Capture Nikolai. Put him in a cage. See if we could pull him from the shadow's grasp. The too-clever fox, finally caught. I blinked and looked away. I didn't want to cry again.
Leigh Bardugo
#46. She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
Evelyn Skye
#47. Nikolai had expected to have to fight the urge to torture the progeny of his father's murderer, but he had never anticipated fighting the urge to fuck her.
Marissa Clarke
#48. The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#49. Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.
Nikolai Bukharin
#50. Before you can dispel other people's ignorance, you should first dispel your own.
Nikolai Grozni
#51. It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#52. We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.
Nikolai Bukharin
#53. - How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?
- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for?
Nikolai Gogol
#54. 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
#55. The mind is a strange thing: it works in secret. Oftentimes the most important decisions in life are made while you're not paying attention.
Nikolai Grozni
#56. But 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.
Nikolai Gogol
#57. Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
Nikolai Gogol
#58. I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#59. But nothing is lasting in this world. Even joy begins to fade after only one minute. Two minutes later, and it is weaker still, until finally it is swallowed up in our everyday, prosaic state of mind, just as a ripple made by a pebble gradually merges with the smooth surface of the water.
Nikolai Gogol
#60. I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If you play his works passively, the juice of his music is really not going to be extracted - it's simply not going to come out.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#61. And when there are no more classes, when society is socially democratized and unified, then there will be revealed in all its metaphysical depths the never-ending tragedy of the conflict between personality and society.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#62. Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#63. We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#64. It is hereby certified that the bearer, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the
said night at Satan's ball, having been summoned there in the capacity of a means of transportation ... make a parenthesis, Hella, in the parenthesis put "hog". Signed - Behemoth.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#65. You can do anything and smash anything in the world with a kopeck.
Nikolai Gogol
#66. Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
Nikolai Gogol
#67. Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#68. So here we are once more in the wilds, and once more we've come upon some out of the way corner. But what a wilderness, and what an out of the way corner!
Nikolai Gogol
#69. You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.
Orson Scott Card
#70. Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
Nikolai Gogol
#71. In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.
Nikolai Leskov
#72. Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.
Nikolai Gogol
#73. Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
Nikolai Gogol
#74. But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.
Nikolai Gogol
#75. Until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and ... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov
#76. Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#77. The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#78. You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!
Nikolai Gogol
#79. I'm used to being the center of attention wherever I go. I've been told I could charm the shoes off a racehorse midstride, and yet you seem impervious.
Leigh Bardugo
#80. I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.
Nikolai Gogol
#81. and what in earlier years would have brought animation to my face, arousing laughter and incessant chatter, now slips past me and my immobile lips preserve an impassive silence. Oh my youth! Oh my freshness!
Nikolai Gogol
#82. Man 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 endless.
Nikolai Gogol
#83. Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
Nikolai Gogol
#84. Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
#85. And so the money which to some extent may have saved the situation is spent on various means for bringing about self oblivion
Nikolai Gogol
#86. They don't listen to me, they don't hear me, they don't see me.
Nikolai Gogol
#87. Keep not money, but keep good people's company.
Nikolai Gogol
#88. The distinction between the things of Caesar and the things of God is constantly being erased in our fallen world, and this always indicates that the Kingdom of Caesar is attempting to swallow up the Kingdom of God.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
#89. [P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort; it is carried by the wind from the Caspian Sea.
Nikolai Gogol
#90. What 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 only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
Nikolai Gogol
#91. Would he need to consider my feelings if at any point he should feel minded to blame
Nikolai Gogol
#92. It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.
Nikolai Gogol
#93. I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
Nikolai Gogol
#94. [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 ...
Nikolai Gogol
#95. Nikolai stroked her cheek, then wrapped her in his embrace. "You're safe," he said tenderly beside her ear. "I've got you, and I'm going to keep you safe.
Lara Adrian
#96. The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit wreck.
Nikolai Gogol
#100. But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even ... and after all, where aren't there incongruities?
Nikolai Gogol
