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“Look at us, Lazarus, and share our joy. Is there anything stronger than love?"

And Lazarus looked. And for the rest of their life they kept on loving each other, but their passion grew gloomy and joyless, like those funeral cypresses whose roots feed on the decay of the graves and whose black summits in a still evening hour seek in vain to reach the sky. Thrown by the unknown forces of life into each other's embraces, they mingled tears with kisses, voluptuous pleasures with pain, and they felt themselves doubly slaves, obedient slaves to life, and patient servants of the silent Nothingness. Ever united, ever severed, they blazed like sparks and like sparks lost themselves in the boundless Dark.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“He felt that in the eyes of the Infinite wisdom and folly are the same, for the Infinite knows them not.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“No more did the frozen heart ache.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“I do not like Christians. They shake the tree of life, forbidding it to bear fruit, and they scatter to the wind it's fragrant blossoms.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“Rome fell silently to ruins. A New city rose in its place, and it was too erased by emptiness. Like phantom Giants, cities, kingdoms, and countries swiftly fell and disappeared into emptiness-- swallowed up in the black maw of the Infinite”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“But the rope is still more horrible when it forms the noose around the necks of weak and ignorant people.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus

“Ты лишний здесь. Ты, жалкий остаток, не доеденный смертью, внушаешь людям тоску и отвращение к жизни; ты, как гусеница на полях, объедаешь тучный колос радости и извергаешь слизь отчаяния и скорби.”
― Леонид Андреев, Елеазар

“Nobody took care of Lazarus, he no longer had any relatives or friends, and the great desert, which embraced the holy city, approached the very threshold of his dwelling place. And she came into his house, and she sprawled across his bed, like a wife, and she extinguished the fires.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Lazarus