Famous Ukrainians

A rich state formed by poor people is absurd! The state cannot build its prosperity on the poverty and poverty of its citizens.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Life is so short. Hurry up to do good!

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

If I have to choose between beauty and truth, I choose beauty. There is a deeper truth in it than just one bare truth. What is beautiful is true.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

A lizard reaches the highest mountain peaks no worse than an eagle.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Of all human passions, ethical passion is the only worthy and true passion.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Ice is born to melt.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Evil comes from human stupidity.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

How hard, painful, and scary it is to be childless in life and in creativity.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

I was born and lived for goodness and love. I was killed by the hatred of the elders just at the moment of their smallness.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

The cemetery is a mirror of human relationships.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

When there are no passions, there is no art…

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

We are born unequal to the world, and we die equal!

— Panteleimon Kulish

It is better to die a hero than to live a slave.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

In your love of life… I see the ordinary fear of death.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

It is very rightly said: he who has no enemies also has no friends.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

The crown of praise is old age.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Only the strong are given the right to immortality…

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Everything passes, but not God and not love.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Only laughter can destroy evil without malice.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Was there ever a friendship between misers?

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

And to a girl’s heart, what is young beauty, what is Cossack glory, when a Cossack does not rush to her?

— Panteleimon Kulish

Even the wise man often stumbles.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

It's hard to live in the world, but you want to live.

— Panteleimon Kulish

When a fish is caught, it no longer needs a lure.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Our life is a journey, and a friendly conversation is a cart that makes the traveler's way easier.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Having received wings, a person acquired the qualities not of an angel, but of Satan.

— Oleksandr Dovzhenko

It is probably impossible to bring people to their senses except by grief and trouble.

— Panteleimon Kulish

Everything passes, but love remains after everything.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

The human soul is the same, that of a Cossack and that of a woman: once you destroy it, you will not get another.

— Panteleimon Kulish

Cheerfulness is the health of a harmonious soul. A soul affected by some vice cannot be cheerful.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda