242 Quotes by Yevgeny Zamyatin

And, like children, you will swallow without protest everything bitter I shall give you only when it is carefully coated with the thick syrup of adventure.

N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom of the lake. We do not hear a thing, and the water over us is muddy and sleepy. And on the surface, way above - why, everything's in flames, and the alarms are ringing.' (“A Provincial Tale”)

Öleceğinize inanır mısınız? Evet, insanoğlu ölümlüdür,ben bir insanım, buradan… Hayır, o değil; bildiğinizi biliyorum. Bense şunu soruyorum: bu sayfayı tutan parmakların günün birinde sararıp, buz gibi olacağına inandınız mı, kesinlikle inandınız mı? Aklınızla değil de vücudunuzla inandınız mı, hissettiniz mi? Hayır kesinlikle inanmıyorsunuz ve bu yüzden bugüne kadar da onuncu kattan kaldırıma atmadınız kendinizi.

And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite.

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Revolutions are infinite.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

–¿Por qué? ¿Y por qué no tenemos plumaje ni alas, sino solamente omoplatos, las bases para las alas? Porque ya no necesitamos alas: porque tenemos aviones y las alas solamente nos estorbarían.