I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault,…

- Daniil Kharms

Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.

- Daniil Kharms

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice…

- Daniil Kharms

There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he …

- Daniil Kharms

Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?” I asked my te…

- Daniil Kharms

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

- Daniil Kharms

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

- Daniil Kharms