Quotes from Mikhail Sholokhov

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, The Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.

No matter how bad the lord is, the lout become a lord is ten times worse.

In broad daylight it's terrible for a man to face his death; but when you're asleep it ought to be easy enough....

When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where today it flows in shallows like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, tomorrow it will flow richly and fully.

The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again—and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass.

Need isn't your own mother, but it makes people kin.

La vida dicta a los hombres leyes que no están escritas