Andrei Platonov Quotes
- We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
- A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
- At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.
- Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
- From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
- Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
- I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
- My body gets weak without truth.
- If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
- The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
- When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
- Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.
- Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.
- Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.
- Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.
- If they don't think, people act senselessly.
- I lived and languished.
- I have a trend of my own.
- What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?
- We hate our squalor.