Platonov Quotes & Sayings

My body gets weak without truth. — Andrei Platonov

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

Only those who do not work do not make mistakes. — Viacheslav Platonov

In place of hope all that remained to him was endurance, and somewhere beyond the long sequence of nights, beyond the orchards that faded, blossomed, and perished once more, beyond all the people he had encountered and who had then passed on into the past, there existed his fated day-when he would have to take to his bed, turn his face to the wall, and pass away without being able to cry — Andrei Platonov

I lived and languished. — Andrei Platonov

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde? — Andrei Platonov

Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived. — Andrei Platonov

Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore. — Andrei Platonov

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself. — Andrei Platonov

People themselves would grind one another down and tear one another to pieces, and the best would fall dead in the struggle while the worst would turn into animals. — Andrei Platonov

I have a trend of my own. — Andrei Platonov

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

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

He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would remember him, and love him. But he didn't believe they would. From childhood memories he knew how strange and sad it is after a long absence to see a familiar place again, for these unmoving objects have no memory and do not recognize the stirrings of a stranger's heart. — Andrei Platonov

In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ... , must always be correlated with tactical tasks. — Viacheslav Platonov

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world. — Andrei Platonov

For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated. — Viacheslav Platonov

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

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession. — Viacheslav Platonov

We hate our squalor. — Andrei Platonov

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

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

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

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive. — Andrei Platonov

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets. — Joseph Brodsky

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow? — Andrei Platonov

He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans. — Andrei Platonov

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. — Andrei Platonov

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

Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in the world, and feeling glad that everything in it was right for her - for her body, her heart, and her freedom. — Andrei Platonov

If they don't think, people act senselessly. — Andrei Platonov

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent. — Viacheslav Platonov

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

Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something? — Andrei Platonov

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