Maxim Gorky Quotes

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim i...

...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things ...

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, b...

This is the way it ought to be!" said the Little Russian, returning. "Because, mark you, mother dear...

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedie...

Every new time will give its law.

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go what to do - it all takes care of itself...

Those——"—here he flung out a terrible oath—"those people don't know what their blind hands are sowin...

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once h...

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Ju...

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference t...

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of...

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A sc...

In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure peop...

the mother again remarked the simplicity and calmness of their relation to each other. it was hard f...

we people at the bottom feel everything; but it is hard for us to speak out our hearts. our thoughts...

They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lo...

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though ...

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

We must endure, Alyosha." That was the only thing she could say in response to my accounts of the ug...

An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general object...

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once h...