Path Quote by Nikolai Gogol

“I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”

Nikolai Gogol

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings)

More by Nikolai Gogol

it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments.…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

“What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

“Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

“It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.”

Nikolai Gogol

Image

...how much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners...

Nikolai Gogol

Image

Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

Nikolai Gogol

Image

“The fair-haired man was one of those people in whose character there is at first sight a certain obstinacy. Before you can open your…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

“Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the…

Nikolai Gogol

Image

Explore all 125 Nikolai Gogol quotes

More Path quotes

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

G-Dragon

Image

When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.

Laozi

Image

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are…

Anonymous

Image

The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one…

Daniel Keyes

Image

it's never been a plan to have this or that. It's just where I am in my life, at that time, and where my…

Cam Gigandet

Image

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Helen Keller

Image

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

Ariel Pink

Image

Have the courage to go against the tide of current values that do not conform to the path of Jesus.

Pope Francis

Image

I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast…

Roger Ross Williams

Image

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because…

Sara Shepard

Image

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

Anonymous

Image

I honestly didn't always want kids - for a very long time, it just wasn't a path I saw myself on. I wasn't even…

Jedediah Bila

Image

Browse all 6,990 Path quotes

Path Quote by Nikolai Gogol

Related quotes

More by Nikolai Gogol

More Path quotes