Top 6 Yury Olesha Quotes (2025 Update)

Yury Olesha Quote: “Writers are engineers of human souls.”

1. “Writers are engineers of human souls.”

2. “You are a clot, so to speak. A clot of envy in the dying era’s bloodstream. The dying era envies the era that’s coming to take its place.”

— Yury Olesha

3. “A HUGE cloud with the outline of South America loomed over the city. The cloud itself was luminous, but the shadow it cast was ominous. The shadow was moving astronomically slowly toward Babichev’s street.”

— Yury Olesha

4. “What could be poetic in a pigsty enveloped in so many curses?”

— Yury Olesha

5. “I need to be blinded, Valya. I was wrong, Valya... I thought the emotions had perished – love and devotion and tenderness, but it’s all still here, Valya... Only not for us, all that’s left for us is envy and more envy... Poke out my eyes, Valya, I want to go blind...”

— Yury Olesha

6. “I listen, horrified. It’s the laughter of a heathen priest. I listen like a blind man listening to a rocket explode.”

— Yury Olesha

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