Men Quotes by Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Andreyev

Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes his, and his, in turn, becomes the lot of all who shall come after him. Drawn on inexorably by time, it is not given him to see the next rung on which his faltering foot shall fall. Bounded in knowledge, it is not given him to foretell what each succeeding hour, what each succeeding minute, shall have in store for him. In blind nescience, in an agony of foreboding, in a whirl of hopes and fears, he completes the cycle of an iron destiny.

Destiny

Fall

Men

Leonid Andreyev

Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken — the Man bursts, in some unknown manner, the bars of non-existence, and announces with a cry the beginning of his brief life. In the night of non-existence there bursts forth also a little candle, lit by an unseen hand. Mark well its flame: for it is the life of that Man.

Flames

Men

Night

Leonid Andreyev

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

Darkness

Men

Void

Leonid Andreyev

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Animal

Generosity

Men

Leonid Andreyev

The papers are full of murders — strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

Brain

Men

Paper

Leonid Andreyev

There is no beast more cruel than man.

Beast

Cruelty

Men

Leonid Andreyev

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It’s like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

Asking

Drowning

Men

Leonid Andreyev

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don’t ask him about his health!

Death

Men

Rope

Leonid Andreyev

When a woman weeps, it is a man’s shame.

Men

Shame

Women

Leonid Andreyev

Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

Men

Powerful

Wise

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Animal

Argument

Asking

Beast

Birth

Blind

Book

Born

Born Again

Brain

Children

Cruelty

Dark

Darkness

Death

Decay

Destiny

Devil

Distance

Dream

Drowning

Faces

Fall

Flames

Footsteps

Generosity

Girl

God

Hands

Hate

Heart

Hurt

Hymns

Infinity

Instruments

Knows

Littles

Long

Loss

Love

Love Is

Memories

Men

Moon

Moving

Night

Optimism

Order

Owl

Paper

Powerful

Race

Rain

Reason

Rope

Salt

Shame

Sleep

Stars

Strong

Succeed

Taste

Today

Truth

Two

Useless

Void

War

Way

Wisdom

Wise

Women

World

Would Be

Men Quotes by Leonid Andreyev

Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

The papers are full of murders — strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It’s like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don’t ask him about his health!

When a woman weeps, it is a man’s shame.

Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

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