242 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods – romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

I had never known this before, but now I do and so do you: Laughter comes in different colours. It is only the distant echo of an explosion inside you. It might come in holiday colours – red, blue, golden rockets. or it might be the bits of a human body flying out...