Monday Motivation
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
One masterpiece of Russian literature,
delivered daily.
Dead Souls Daily is the antidote to toxic positivity. No life hacks, no forced gratitude. Just the beautiful, devastating reality of being alive, courtesy of the writers who said it best.
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One thought. Every day. In the original.
Tap the quote and the translation gives way to the words the author actually wrote: Tolstoy’s, Dostoevsky’s, Chekhov’s. Every quote in the collection has its Russian, and the source now gives the part and chapter, or the story by name, rather than the title alone. Both belong to Unlock the Archive. The daily quote, and your saved collection however far it runs, stay free forever.
Every morning, the wellness internet hands you a sunrise and tells you to seize the day. We hand you one sentence from a Russian who knew better.
Your daily quote, always visible.
Misery, formatted for Stories.
Turn any passage into a high-resolution card sized for Instagram. If a single sentence from a long-dead Russian ruins your morning, the only decent thing to do is make sure it ruins someone else's too.
Keep the ones that wound you.
Tap the gold star to file any quote into your private collection, as many as your disposition requires, at no cost. Unlock the Archive, once for life or by the year, and you get every quote ever published: the Russian original of each, the part and chapter it came from, and the run of what your widget shows you.
“We drink the cup of being with our eyes blindfolded.”
Mikhail Lermontov · The Cup of Life
Two centuries of Russian writers
- Alexander Pushkin1799 – 1837
- Fyodor Tyutchev1803 – 1873
- Nikolai Gogol1809 – 1852
- Mikhail Lermontov1814 – 1841
- Ivan Turgenev1818 – 1883
- Fyodor Dostoevsky1821 – 1881
- Leo Tolstoy1828 – 1910
- Anton Chekhov1860 – 1904
- Ivan Bunin1870 – 1953
- Alexander Blok1880 – 1921
- Anna Akhmatova1889 – 1966
- Boris Pasternak1890 – 1960
- Marina Tsvetaeva1892 – 1941
- Joseph Brodsky1940 – 1996
Don’t let this app fool you. It’s a treasure trove of gorgeous Russian prose covering the whole spectrum of human emotion. As the title suggests, it’s simple, beautiful, and functional. Download now!!
savhedrick · App Store · 29 July
A must for Russian literature fans! It’s such a witty and unique idea. Also nice that they don’t charge you like most apps these days. I love my daily dose of misery, thank you.
Dar_Al · App Store · 18 May
A perfect five. Early, but unanimous.
Your first sorrow is waiting.
Free to download. One quote every morning, delivered with the punctuality of the grave. No ads. No account. No one telling you to manifest your abundance.