64 Quotes by Leonid Andreyev

I cannot get accustomed to war; my brain refuses to understand and explain a thing that is senseless in its basis. Millions of people gather at one place and, giving their actions order and regularity, kill each other, and it hurts everybody equally, and all are unhappy – what is it if not madness?

Don’t laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.

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

Ah well, ’tis the way of the world – births and deaths, births and deaths.

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

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.

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

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.

He did not dissociate his thought from himself; he thought integrally, with the whole of his body; and each logical deduction forthwith became real to him – as happens only with very healthy or direct persons who have not yet turned thought into a pastime.