Maxim Gorky > Quotes

“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, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
― Maxim Gorky

“When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.”
― Maxim Gorky

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
― Maxim Gorky

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, Lower Depths and Other Plays

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
― Maxim Gorky

“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918 (Revised)

“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“إن الكنائس في المدن الكبيرة مليئة بالفضة والذهب اللذين لا حاجة لله بهما ، في حين يرتجف على ابواب الكنائس عدد لا يحصى من الفقراء ينتظرون بفارغ الصبر هبات نحيلة تُلقى في أيديهم المفتوحة.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories

“Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.”
― Maxim Gorki

“لا يكفي أن تعرف, لابد أن تفهم”
― Maxim Gorky

“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
― Maxim Gorky, Literary Portraits

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”
― Maxim Gorky

“When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event...”
― Maxim Gorky, My Childhood

“The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .”
― Maxim Gorky, Selected Short Stories

“تنمو الحقيقة عندما يروي دم الشرفاء الأرض كالمطر الغزير، أما دم الأعداء فلا يبدع شيئاً، إنه دم عاقر، فاسد يتبخر دون أن يترك أثراً”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.”
― Maxim Gorky, My Childhood

“أنت تسكب روحك في الشئ الذي تفضله.”
― Maxim Gorky

“in music one can hear everything.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
― Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918 (Revised)

“Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.”
― Maxim Gorky

“نحن أبناء تلك الحياة المظلمة نحس كل شيء، لكنه يصعب علينا وضعه في كلمات فنخجل لكوننا نفهم لكن نعجز عن التعبير عما نفهم”
― Maxim Gorky

“تعمى عيون البعض من الجوع ، وتعمى عيون البعض الآخر من الذهب”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“اتعلمون ان هناك الكثير من الاحزان تنتظر البشر؟ ان دمعهم ما زال يمتص. ولكن ذلك كله، لكن حزني كله، و دمي ليس الا فدية تافهة لبعض ما احمل في صدري وراسي. اني غني بالشعاع كالنجم، و ساتحمل كل شيء، ساتحمله لان في داخلي فرحا لا يقوى انسان ما أو شيء ما على خنقه ابدا .. و في هذا الفرح تكمن القوة.”
― مكسيم غوركي

“The pleasure of living carries with it the obligation to die.”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother

“كل امرئ يخشى ان يتلقى الضربة من جاره ، وهو من اجل ذلك، يتأهب لـسبقه اليها. هكذا هي الحياة ايتها الام الصغيرة.”
― مكسيم غوركي

“لقد ذقت الهوان حتى لم يعد الهوان يثير حنقي ، أهناك فوق سطلح الأرض امرؤٌ لم يُذَلّ ؟”
― Maxim Gorky, Mother