Soul Quotes

“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, Soul

“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, Soul

“But men live because they’re born, not by truth or by intelligence, and while the heart goes on beating it scatters and spreads their despair and finally destroys itself, losing its substance in patience and in work.”
― Andrei Platonov, Soul

“The soul doesn’t die,” he said. “She becomes a stranger. She thinks bad is good. She gets bored inside us. She imagines what doesn’t exist and promises what never will exist.”
― Andrei Platonov, Soul

“Aslında insanlar akıldan ya da hakikatten değil, sırf doğdukları için yaşarlar ve kalpleri, çarptığı müddetçe, çaresizliklerini işleyip parçalara böler, kendi de sabırla çalışmaktan cevherini yitirip viran olur.”
― Andrei Platonov, Soul

“Keep going till you come to strangers. Let your father be a man you don't know.”
― Andrei Platonov, Soul

“He could not understand why happiness seems so improbable to everyone, why people try to charm one another only with sorrow.
Chagataev had had his fill of grief when he was a child. Now that he was educated, he thought of grief as something all too easy, and he was determined to build a happy world of bliss in his homeland: what else, in any case, was there to do in life?”
― Andrey Platonov, Soul

“He could not understand why happiness seems so improbable to everyone, why people try to charm one another only with sorrow.
Chagataev had had his fill of grief when he was a child. Now that he was educated, he thought of grief as something all too easy, and he was determined to build a happy world of bliss in his homeland: what else, in any case, was there to do in life?”
― Andrei Platonov, Soul