LEONID ANDREYEV QUOTES

Russian playwright, novelist & short story writer (1871-1919)

Leonid Andreyev quote

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

Tags: science


Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

LEONID ANDREYEV

He Who Gets Slapped


All perishes, all decays, all is born again.

LEONID ANDREYEV

King Hunger


There is no beast more cruel than man.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

Tags: cruelty


Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Anathema


Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

LEONID ANDREYEV

"Lazarus"


Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

LEONID ANDREYEV

The Life of Man


Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

LEONID ANDREYEV

He Who Gets Slapped

Tags: death


What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

Tags: birth


Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

LEONID ANDREYEV

King Hunger

Tags: machines


Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Anathema

Tags: love


Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

LEONID ANDREYEV

The Life of Man


It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva


To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

LEONID ANDREYEV

The Life of Man

Tags: success


Only the dead know the truth.

LEONID ANDREYEV

Savva

Tags: truth


I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.

LEONID ANDREYEV

diary, Aug. 1, 1891


When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

LEONID ANDREYEV

He Who Gets Slapped


Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?

LEONID ANDREYEV

He Who Gets Slapped

Tags: God


When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

LEONID ANDREYEV

The Life of Man

Tags: tears


The papers are full of murders -- strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

LEONID ANDREYEV

The Red Laugh