Quotes from Mikhail Bulgakov

Seseorang yang tak terburu-buru akan sampai ke mana-mana.

Kebaikan merupakan satu-satunya metode yang memungkinkan untuk menangani makhluk hidup. Keliru jika berpikir teror akan membantunya. Teror itu sepenuhnya melumpuhkan sistem syaraf.

Oh, matalah yang paling utama. Kau bisa mengetahui segalanya—orang yang jiwanya sekering debu, orang yang tak akan pernah menggajul tulang rusukmu, dan orang yang takut pada semuanya. Yang disebut terakhir itu, para penjilat, merekalah yang kadang-kadang mesti digigit pergelangan kakinya.

I'm a specialist in black magic

To the sound of his unbroken sobbing and the woman's groans I managed, if the truth be known, to break the baby's arm. The child was born dead. God, how the sweat ran down my back! For an instant I somehow imagined that some huge, grim, black figure would appear and burst into the cottage, saying in a stony voice: 'Aha! Take away his degree!

Permita-me perguntar: como o homem poderia governar se ele não apenas está privado da possibilidade de elaborar um plano para um período de tempo ridiculamente curto, como, digamos, mil anos, mas nem consegue responder pelo dia de amanhã?

Porém, a feitiçaria, como se sabe, basta começar que ninguém segura.

Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don't notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!

love leaped out at us like a murderer jumping out of a dark alley.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

Difficult folk, these women!

Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

The most amazing combinations can result if you shuffle the pack enough.

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

And what remains for us to do, my friends? When life is such a dismal pit, it must be left behind without delay! My friends, let us all go and drown ourselves! Look out of the window, at the river! It beckons us to come!

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once.

The trouble with truth is that not only does truth stink; it usually does not exist.

It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system.

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

Difficult folk, these women!

It is easy to go downhill; gravity does all the work.

There's one thing that troubles me, my friends. It isn't right for us to drown ourselves at night, after supper. People will say we did it because we were drunk. We shall go to bed now and sleep till morning, and at ten o'clock, washed and dressed properly, with proudly lifted heads, we shall walk to the river, so that everybody will see that we drowned ourselves like true philosophers.