Andrei Platonov Quotes

"We hate our squalor."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Hate)

"What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?"
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Act, Thinking, Will)

"When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Nothing, Thinking)

"Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Truth)

"From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Soul, Ugliness, Will, World)

"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Happiness, Materialism, Meaning, Will)

"A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: War, Birth, Man, Woman)

"At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Time, Day, Dogs, Revolution, Night, Russia)

"If they don't think, people act senselessly."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: People, Act)

"Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?"
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Nothing, Sorrow, World)

"My body gets weak without truth."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Truth, Body)

"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
(Related: Power, Forget, Kids, Mothers, Sense)

"I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Want, Word)

"I lived and languished."
- Andrei Platonov

"I have a trend of my own."
- Andrei Platonov

"The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat."
- Andrei Platonov
(Related: Home, Class, Country, Future)