Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is not the free choice of the heart that matters, and not love, but the mystery, which they must blindly...

Perhaps it was because a terrible anguish had developed within my soul, occasioned by a circumstance which loomed infinitely larger than my own self: to be precise, it was the dawning conviction that...

What is most mortifying of all is that it is chance - simply a barbarous, lagging chance. That is what is mortifying! Five minutes, only five minutes too late! Had I come five minutes earlier, the mom...

But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.

فهناك نفوس حرثتها أنواع الشقاء والمحن والأحزان حرثا إن صح التعبير، واصطبرت طول حياتها وعانت آلاما ضخمة وآلاما تافهة لا نهاية لها، فلا شيء يدهشها بعد ذلك، ولو كان كوارث مفاجئة، ولا شيء ينسيها قاعدة من...

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that.

Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.

I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think...

For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the...

Love equates people

I don’t understand how, up to now, an atheist could know there is no God and not kill himself at once. To recognize that there is no God, and not to recognize at the same time that you have become God...

Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met me, for my being able to remember you all my life!

لسوف أتريث قليلاً قبل أن ألعن يهوذا هذا. فالله وحده يعلم ماذا يكمن في أعماق قلوب السكارى. الأبله

Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like, Porfiry Petrovitch began again, but I can't resist. Allow me one little question (I know I am troubling you). There is just one little notion I wa...

Măritişul ei fusese, fără doar şi poate, efectul unor influenţe străine, rezultatul frămîntârilor unui suflet captiv

I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they se...

We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers.

I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards and the Hussars, and fine ladies; at those moments I felt a spa...

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.

Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And w...