Leonid Andreyev Quotes

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The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.

Leonid Andreyev
Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Leonid Andreyev
Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?

Leonid Andreyev
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.

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?

Leonid Andreyev
When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

Leonid Andreyev
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.

Leonid Andreyev
Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.

Leonid Andreyev
Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

Leonid Andreyev
Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Leonid Andreyev