Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Maxim Gorky (Russian Writer)

Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (1868–1936,) known by his pseudonym Maxim Gorky, was a Russian dramatist, prose writer, and revolutionary. He is considered the greatest Russian writer of the 20th century. His stories portrayed ordinary but restless people struggling against humiliation and suffering.

Born in Nizhny Novgorod, a city between 1932 and 1990 named Gorky 1932–90 in his honor, Gorky had an unhappy upbringing. He worked manual labor jobs when he was a teenager. He published his first short story at the age of 23 and signed it “Maxim Gorky,” or “Maxim the Bitter.”

Gorky became famous for the short stories that he published between 1895 and 1900, but later wrote novels and plays. His most plays include The Philistines (1901,) The Lower Depths (1901,) and Mother (1907.) The Lower Depths remains the most frequently performed of any of his works for the stage.

Gorky was imprisoned for his participation in the 1905 Russian Revolution and went on a self-imposed exile. He wrote his first novel, Comrades (1907,) in the United States, and he lectured across Europe and America. He lived briefly in the Italian island of Capri, where he wrote many of his best-known works, including A Confession (1908) and his autobiographical trilogy—My Childhood (1914,) In the World (1915,) and My Universities (1923.)

He went back to Russia in 1913, opposed the 1917 Russian Revolution, and criticized the Bolsheviks. He and Lenin were close friends, but Lenin told Gorky to go live abroad, so Gorky spent most of the 1920s in Italy. He came back to Russia in 1931 when Stalin was in power to lead the first “All-Soviet Congress of Writers.” He went along with Stalin and was rewarded with a comfortable life for five years. However, he died in 1936 under mysterious circumstances, possibly from being poisoned under Stalin’s orders.

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Past, The Past

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Mathematics

You can’t do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Philosophy

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Stupidity

When work is a pleasure, life is joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Only mothers can think of the future, because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Family

It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Authors & Writing

The intelligentsia …was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie – that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Philosophy

Every new time will give its law.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Laughter

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in a circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Laws

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That’s why we want to be considerate of every man—Who knows what’s in him, why he was born and what he can do?
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Hope, Optimism, Aspirations

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Murder

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write
Maxim Gorky
Topics: Drinking

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