Top 70 Sergei Lukyanenko Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.”

— Sergei Lukyanenko

2. “One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.”

— Sergei Lukyanenko

3. “Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.”

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4. “I am fat, lazy and kind.”

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5. “Great knowledge brings great sorrow.”

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6. “There is very much in the world that is bad. But usually the attempt to defeat evil engenders more evil. I advise you to do good; that is the only way to win the victory.”

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7. “Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.”

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8. “The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.”

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9. “Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.”

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10. “And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it’s more profitable to slaughter them.”

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11. “When leaders betray their people and the people don’t overthrow them, it’s not just the leaders who should be blamed.”

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12. “We are our own gods and our own demons.”

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13. “In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.”

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14. “What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn’t give love a chance?”

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15. “Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”

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16. “A car’s not the right place for showing off to a girl – the bed’s the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.”

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17. “The past is not important. The present is inconsequential. The future is indeterminate. He.”

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18. “How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.”

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19. “Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes.”

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20. “That’s the hardest thing of all – never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.”

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21. “If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you’re already late...”

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22. “The only thing that restrains you is fear, Anton Gorodetsky. For yourself, or for people – that’s not important. But we are restrained by horror. And that is why we observe the Treaty.”

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23. “Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you – these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”

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24. “The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. Sure, I know it’s true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.”

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25. “We’re not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth’s always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.”

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26. “Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.”

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27. “Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.”

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28. “I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.”

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29. “When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.”

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30. “Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.”

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31. “Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.”

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32. “Drinking beer in a children’s playground is an old Soviet tradition.”

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33. “There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!”

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34. “Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?”

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35. “People don’t usually think about the meaning of the words they say. It seems to them that words convey truth. That when someone hears the word “red” he will think of a ripe raspberry and not a pool of blood. That the word “love” will evoke Shakespeare’s sonnets and not the erotic films of Playboy. And they find themselves baffled when the word they’ve spoken doesn’t evoke the right response.”

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36. “An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.”

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37. “What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music – reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.”

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38. “What if every time you fought for love, you were fighting for the whole world? For the whole world – not against the whole world.”

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39. “This one swears like a trooper – he’s a bad boy.”

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40. “This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren’t even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”

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41. “When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It’s always destiny.”

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42. “That’s the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.”

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43. “I’d stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It’s our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can’t reproduce – it.”

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44. “All we can do is try not to fall.”

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45. “To put it simply, magic that is controlled by reason is more like a knife than a grenade launcher.”

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46. “What did a young body mean, when you could see the dust of the centuries in the other person’s eyes?”

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47. “Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can’t push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.”

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48. “You’re a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.”

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49. “Evil goes unpunished for too often.”

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50. “That’s how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.”

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