Andrei Platonov Quotes

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

I have a trend of my own.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

I lived and languished.

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

My body gets weak without truth.

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.