Mikhail Sholokhov quotes

‘ The Don! The Don! The gentle Don! Our father; giver of our food! Hurrah!' (Mikhail Sholokhov)
Sometimes life played with him, sometimes it hung on him like a stone round the neck of a drowned man. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
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 to-day it flows in shallows, like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, to-morrow it will flow richly and fully. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
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. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
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. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
In this winter night, long and ample for bitter memories, many a widow who lost her husband in the war and is now left alone will press her palms to her ageing face; and in the nocturnal darkness the burning tears, as bitter as wormwood, will scorch her fingers. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
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. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
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. View quote
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. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov
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. View quote
Mikhail Sholokhov