Inspirational Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Who will dare say he has defined art?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A hard life improves the vision.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But what can you say in a letter?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But nothing is all black in nature.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We will die, but art will remain.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... any country that is not careful can be seized.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... it is a major responsibility ... of all communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Which of us can control his feelings?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one who pulls is the one they urge on.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What a force is laughter.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If it goes well with you, then all is well.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Still, everybody wants to eat.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A human being is all hope and impatience.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Not all of me shall die.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have ourselves to save.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Work is what horses die of

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It takes a fool to rush off to war!

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn