Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.

If it's possible to do something, sooner or later someone's going to do it.

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

Love is a great power, and such a strange power.

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.

We are our own gods and our own demons.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.

Being on the side of the Light is much tougher than being on the side of the Dark.

Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.

The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.

When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl—the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.

The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people - that's not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.