Life Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A hard life improves the vision.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“One thing about women Yefrem had found out in his life: they cling.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours uselessly in sleep. When we…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“That wasn't like spying. Any fool can spy. A spy has a clean, exciting life. But try and spend ten years in…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“But this became the first plan of his life to fail. God told him - apparently with the help of human hands…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Should a man, to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour, scent and excitement? Can one accept a life of…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“My life is over, a little early to be sure; but there's nothing to be done about it. I shall never return…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life. Now, with the new feeling that had…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Look around you--there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now.…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Children write essays in school about the unhappy, tragic, doomed life of Anna Karenina . But was Anna really unhappy? She chose…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The meaning of existence was to preserve untarnished, undisturbed and undistorted the image of eternity which each person is born with -…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn