Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

You will say that that was in the comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also, comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned t...

True love finds its consummation.

On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other way and know no other love. I want to suffer so that I can love. I desire, I thirst i...

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

It may be that you ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be of great heart and fear less.

There have been and still are geometricians and philosophers, and even some of the most distinguished, who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely the whole of existence, was only cr...

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fel...

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder...

The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincip...

Man loves to construct and lay down roads, no question about it. But why is he so passionately fond of destruction and chaos? [...] Isn't man so passionately fond of destruction and chaos (and there's...

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

يقولون أن الوداعة قوة هائلة

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past...

لقد غضبت ياجوبتر،فأنت إذن على خطأ..

لقد كان فولتير يؤمن بالله، ولكن يبدو أن إيمانهـ ، كان ضعيفاً، كان كذلك لا يحب الإنسانية كثيراً..

You have to be all too basely in love with yourself to write about yourself without shame.

Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.

And though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest reality always has something shocking about it.

For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suic...