Quotes About Zamyatin

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get crazily confused and thrown off the track.

But this is not your fault—you are sick. The name of this sickness is IMAGINATION.  It is a worm that gnaws out black lines on the forehead. It is a fever that drives you to escape ever farther, even if this "farther" begins where happiness ends.

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign — the divine minus.

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.