Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

- Leonid Andreyev

See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bo…

- Leonid Andreyev

What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.

- Leonid Andreyev

All perishes, all decays, all is born again.

- Leonid Andreyev

Ah well, 'tis the way of the world -- births and deaths, births and deaths.

- Leonid Andreyev

Who strikes man with love -- God or the Devil?

- Leonid Andreyev

Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

- Leonid Andreyev

Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human ken -- the Man …

- Leonid Andreyev

Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth. Their hard lot becomes …

- Leonid Andreyev