Yevgeny Zamyatin full name was Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. This motivational Yevgeny Zamyatin quotes will change your life.
Best Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
- “True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn’t be worth reading.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “You’re in bad shape. It looks like you’re developing a soul.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else’s.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter – even murder itself.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “We need writers who fear nothing. (“Our Goal”)” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “You’re in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“We comes from God, I from the Devil.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The purpose of art … is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “I’ve read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom — that is, in disorganized wildness.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“Explosions are not comfortable.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Only the rational and useful is beautiful.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The most agonizing thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional – and not some other kind of reality.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring – thus he erred himself.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The moon … is a mad woman holding up her dress So that her white belly shines. Haughty, Impregnable, Ridiculous, Silent and white as a debauched queen.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“Individual consciousness is just sickness.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Dogma, static positions, consonance – all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity – but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. (“X”)” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “All women are lips, nothing but lips.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes talking about women talking habits
- “Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
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“Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is – to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The world is kept alive only by heretics.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “What is it to you if I don’t want others to want for me if I want to want myself – if I want the impossible.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl’s sense. (“The North”)” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons… we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless “Why?” and “What next? “.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods – romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- “They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away – the autumn, people, tomorrow. (“The North”)” – Yevgeny Zamyatin
