Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes - Page 13

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

What a force is laughter.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

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

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

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

In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

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

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.