Nikolai Gogol Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• He 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 clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Clothes, People

• Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Soul, Literature, Body

• [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

  Light, Soul, Depth

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.134, Vintage

• This 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 that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Soul, Might, Wreckage

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.390, Vintage

• But 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 finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Fall, Circles, Water

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