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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.”
― Maxim Gorky, Selected Short Stories

“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.”
― Maxim Gorky

“تبدو السعادة دائما صغيرة عندما تمسكها بين يديك..لكنك اذا تركتها أدركت فورا كم كانت كبيرة وغالية..”
― Maxim Gorky

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

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: And Other Stories

“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.”
― Maxim Gorky, Twenty-Six Men and a Girl: And Other Stories

“Трябва да живееш винаги влюбен в нещо,
което не можеш да стигнеш.
Човек расте на височина от това,
че се мъчи да стигне високото.”
― Maxim Gorky

“I do not care to see men better off – but better!”
― Maxim Gorky

“If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.”
― Maxim Gorky

“ما أعظم الإنسان! ما أشد ما في رنين هذه الكلمة من كبرياء..
الإنسان!لابد أن يكون موضع احترام و ليس موضع شفقة. فالشفقة مهينة”
― Maxim Gorky

“لقد اتضح أنه مهما يكن حرصك علي طلاء الظاهر,فإن الطلاء يزول, كله يزول.”
― Maxim Gorky

“عليك بمزيد من الصبر, علينا جميعا بالصبر, كلٌ علي طريقته”
― Maxim Gorky

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

“لا سبيل إلي معرفة الناس, أيهم طيب و أيهم شرير, لا سبيل!”
― Maxim Gorky