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“Arsenius the Great: I have often regretted the things I have said, but I have never regretted my silence.”
― Evgheni Vodolazkin, Laurus

“So you say faith is not enough for you and you want knowledge, too. But knowledge does not involve spiritual effort; knowledge is obvious. Faith assumes effort. Knowledge is repose and faith is motion.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“You know, O friend, any meeting is surely more than parting. There is emptiness before meeting someone, just nothing, but there is no longer emptiness after parting. After having met someone once, it is impossible to part completely. A person remains in the memory, as a part of the memory. The person created that part and that part lives, sometimes coming into contact with its creator. Otherwise, how would we sense those dear to us from a distance?”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Your trouble is that reaching final conclusions just isn't your thing. You're afraid the decision you make will deprive you of further choice, so that paralyzes your will.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Angels do not tire, said the Angel, because they do not scrimp on their strength. If you are not thinking about the finiteness of your strength, you will not tire, either. Know, O Areseny, that only he who does not fear drowning is capable of walking on water.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Russians are not as gloomy as you seemed to think, after all, Arseny told Ambrogio. Sometimes they are in a good mood. After a horde leaves, for example.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“A miracle can be the result of effort multiplied by faith.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“When Diogenes was asked how to live with the truth, he answered: Do as with fyre: do not go so exceadyngely close that it will burn, but do not go so farre away or the clode will reache you.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“I am going to tell you something strange. It seems ever more to me that there is no time. Everything on earth exists outside of time, otherwise how could I know about the future that has not occurred? I think time is given to us by the grace of God so we will not get mixed up, because a person’s consciousness cannot take in all events at once. We are locked up in time because of our weakness.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“And so I, my love, am going to the very center of the earth. I am going to the point that is closest of all to Heaven. If my words are destined to fly all the way to Heaven, then it will happen there. And all my words will be about you.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“They embraced in parting. There were tears in the merchant’s eyes:
“I do not like parting.��
“Life consists of partings,�� said Arseny. “But you can rejoice more fully in companionship when you remember that.��
“But I would (the merchant Vladislav blew his nose) gather up all the good people I’ve met and never let them go.��
“I think then they would quickly become mean,�� smiled Ambrogio. (p. 238)”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“You know, O friend, any meeting is surely more than parting. There is emptiness before meeting someone, just nothing, but there is no longer emptiness after parting. After having met someone once, it is impossible to part completely. A person remains in the memory, as a part of the memory. The person created that part and that part lives, sometimes coming into contact with its creator. Otherwise, how would we sense those dear to us from a distance?”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Есть время для общения, и есть время для уединения.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Being a mosaic does not necessarily mean scattering into pieces, answered Elder Innokenty. It is only up close that each separate little stone seems not to be connected to the others. There is something more important in each of them, O Laurus: striving for the one who looks from afar. For the one who is capable of seizing all the small stones at once. It is he who gathers them with his gaze. That, O Laurus, is how it is in your life, too. You have dissolved yourself in God. You disrupted the unity of your life, renouncing your name and your very identity. But in the mosaic of your life there is also something that joins all these separate parts: it is an aspiration for Him. They will gather together again in Him.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“The three men walked on and were met by ever more new saints. The saints were not exactly moving or even speaking, but the silence and immobility of the dead were not absolute. There was, under the ground, a motion that was not completely usual, and a particular sort of voices rang out without disturbing the sternness and repose. The saints spoke using words from psalms and lines from the lives of saints that Arseny remembered well from childhood. When they drew the candles closer, shadows shifted along dried faces and brown, half-bent hands. The saints seemed to raise their heads, smile, and beckon, barely perceptibly, with their hands. A city of saints, whispered Ambrogio, following the play of the shadow. They present us the illusion of life. No, objected Arseny, also in a whisper. They disprove the illusion of death.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“What is a soul?�� Arseny asked.
It is what the Lord breathes into the body, what distinguishes us from rocks and plants. The soul makes us living beings, O Arseny. I compare the soul to a flame that originates in an earthly candle but has not earthly nature as it strives skyward, toward its kindred elements”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Ангелы не устают, ответил Ангел, потому что они не экономят сил. Если ты не будешь думать о конечности своих сил, ты тоже не будешь уставать. Знай, Арсение, что по воде способен идти лишь тот, кто не боится утонуть.”
― Евгений Водолазкин, Лавр

“What kind of people are you? says the merchant Zygfryd. A person heals you, dedicates his whole life to you, and you torture him his whole life. And when he dies, you tie a rope to his feet, drag him, and tears stream down your faces.

You have already been in our land for a year and eight months, answers blacksmith Averky, but have not understood a thing about it.

And do you yourselves understand it? asks Zygfryd.

Do we? The blacksmith mulls that over and looks at Zygfryd. Of course we, too, do not understand.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“He hears them out attentively. They think his attention is special, for he who refuses to speak expresses himself by hearing.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Главная трудность состоит, я думаю, не в движении (Амброджо встретил взгляд Арсения), а в выборе пути.”
― Евгений Водолазкин, Лавр

“For what you have tamed, you become responsible forever.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Being a mosaic does not necessarily mean scattering into pieces, answered Elder Innokenty. It is only up close that each separate little stone seems not to be connected to the others. There is something more important in each of them, O Laurus: striving for the one who looks from afar. For the one who is capable of seizing all the small stones at once. It is he who gathers them with his gaze. That, O Laurus, is how it is in your life, too. You have dissolved yourself in God. You disrupted the unity of your life, renouncing your name and your very identity. But in the mosaic of your life there is also something that joins all those separate parts: it is an aspiration for Him. They will gather together again in Him.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“He had four names at various times. A person’s life is heterogeneous, so this could be seen as an advantage. Life’s parts sometimes have little in common, so little that it might appear various people lived them. When this happens, it is difficult not to feel surprised that all these people carry the same name. He”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“People encounter one another (thought Ambrogio), bumping into one another like atoms. They do not have their own trajectories and so their actions are random. But when taken together, those random events (so thought Ambrogio) were their own form of consistency, which could be predictable in certain parts. Only He Who created everything knows this in full.”
― Evgenij Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Caut ... insingurare. Este un timp pentru comunicare, si este un timp pentru insingurare. Am cunoscut mult timp lumea si am adunat in mine atatea, incat de-acum o pot cunoaste inlauntrul meu.”
― Evgheni Vodolazkin, Laurus

“Причина текущих событий в отсутствии внутреннего огня. Ваша беда, если хотите, в том, что вам не свойственно приходить к окончательным выводам. Вы боитесь, что принятое решение лишит вас дальнейшего выбора, и это парализует вашу волю.”
― Евгений Водолазкин, Лавр

“Глаголь Добро.”
― Евгений Водолазкин, Лавр

“Life consists of partings, said Arseny. But you can rejoice more fully in companionship when you remember that.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus

“După cum i se părea lui, cuvântul scris pune în ordine lumea. Îi oprește instabilitatea. Nu îngăduie înțelesurilor să se macine.”
― Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus