“I do know what suffering is. It is terrible, not because it torments the body but because you no longer dream of ridding yourself of pain: you are prepared to rid yourself of your body. To die. You simply are not in a condition to think about matters such as the meaning of life and you see ridding yourself of suffering as the only meaning of death.” PainDeathSufferingThe Aviator Author:Evgenij Vodolazkin
“I sleep. In this room. In the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean.” The AviatorMovie Qoute Author:Howard Hughes
“Because of my father, I thought about the nature of historical calamities – revolutions, wars, and the like. Their primary horror is not in the shooting. And not even in famine. It is that the basest of human fervors are liberated. What is in a person that was previously suppressed by laws comes out in the open. Because for many people only external laws exist. And they have no internal laws. P. 43” WarLawHumanityHistoryThe Aviator Author:Vodolazkin Eugene
“An abundance of discoveries befogged the heads of my former contemporaries who made atheism a fashion, too. Even then, they were reminiscent of a ladybug on the highway who's charmed by her own motion and crawls a dozen meters. The ladybug seems to think she's learned and grasped everything. She will never find out, though, where the highway begins and where it leads.” KnowledgeAtheismThe Aviator Author:Evgenij Vodolazkin
“A little bird hops happily Along disaster's fences, As it does, it can't foresee Any consequences.” DisasterConsequencesThe Aviator Author:Evgenij Vodolazkin