"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" Quotes
The book follows a day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp.
fiction | 168 pages | Published in 2000
Quotes
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be.
Shukhov never overslept reveille. He always got up at once, for the next ninety minutes were his own.
A man should forget his like before he takes off his boots for the night.
It's good for a man to know his luck is running out. It means he still has some left.
A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated.
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
A man in the camps should live for himself alone.
It is not the horror of the abyss that freezes me; it is the fact that I am helpless to get out.
A man must forget his past before he can have a future.
A man who's warm can't understand a man who's cold.
