The best Quotes by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Stop the war! Admit that this is a war against an entire nation and stop it!

Could it be that Russians simply don't need freedom? That while other people do, Russians don't?

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.

Do you know the parable about the frog in the cream? Two frogs landed in a pail of cream. One, thinking rationally, understood straight away that there was no point in resistance and that you can't deceive destiny. But then what if there's an afterlife – why bother jumping around, entertaining false hopes in vain? He crossed his legs and sank to the bottom. The second, the fool, was probably an atheist. And she started to flop around. It would seem that she had no reason to flail about if everything was predestined. But she flopped around and flopped around anyway . . . Meanwhile, the cream turned to butter. And she crawled out. We honour the memory of this second frog's friend, eternally damned for the sake of progress and rational thought.

There are some things that you don't want to do and you pledge to yourself that you won't do, you forbid yourself, and then suddenly they happen all by themselves. You don't even have time to think about them, and they don't make it to the cognitive centres of the brain: they just happen and that's it, and you're left just watching yourself with surprise, and convincing yourself that it wasn't your fault, it just happened all by itself.

Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than just act without any thought or doubt.

Oh, Anna. I was expecting an arrow from Cupid, and got a bullet from an ugly motherf*cker instead!

Some call them demons, I call them b*tches!

Is that a gun in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me?'

If it's hostile - you kill it.

It appears that the devastation we brought upon ourselves was complete; Heaven, Hell and Purgatory were atomized as well. So when a soul leaves the body it has nowhere to go, and must remain here, in the Metro. A harsh, but not undeserved atonement for our sins, wouldn't you agree?

Even in dark times, we cannot relinquish the things that make us human.

If Putin goes ahead with his plan for a change of regime in Kyiv, then democracies around the world must now start thinking about a change of regime in Moscow.

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

Before this war, I was opposed to membership of Ukraine in NATO because I feared that it would start exactly the process that we have seen now. Now that this process has reached this level, the idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful. I believe Ukrainian membership in NATO would be an appropriate outcome.

If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be for other dictators in the world like Xi, like the Chinese President? So therefore Ukraine has to win this war.

Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country.

I want to say thank you to each of you because we are together. And when we feel the reliable support of those standing beside us, Russia becomes one big family.

Tao Xu: "If he is even slightly mean to you...-"
Charlie: "...you'll murder him."
Tao Xu: "I was going to say I'd send him a strongly worded DM, but murder's fine too."

It's kind of ironic. The more care you put into a murder, the harsher society judges you.

Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.

Paradise is wonderful when your life is dull and full of traffic. As an escape every now and then.

Hell is empty, devils are here!

Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight we dine in hell!

Sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.