159 Quotes by Maxim Gorky

Even a bad man is better than a good book.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

Every new time will give its law.

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.