Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

إن المرء ليجد لذة في أدنى درجة من درجات الانخحطاط و المذلة

Because what is man without his volition but a stop on a barrel-organ cylinder?

Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions.

Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely usual people, and how can he present them to the reader so as to make them at least somewhat...

In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I had was readi...

Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature.- Yes; it's a funny habit.- No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, however...

وهناك في الأخير أشياء، يخشى المرء أن يكشف عنها، حتى لنفسه هو بالذات

There is a good deal of posturing here, of romantic frenzy, of wild Karamazovian unrestraint and sentimentality—yes, and also something else, gentlemen of the jury, something that cries out in the sou...

كل أعمال الانسان تتألف في الحقيقة من شيء واحد فقط هو اثباته لنفسه في كل لحظة

Tyranny is a habit which may be developed until at last it becomes a disease. I declare that the noblest nature can become so hardened and bestial that nothing distinguishes it from that of a wild ani...

هكذا حال النفوس الرومانسية دائماً , تظل حتى آخر لحظة تزين الناس بريش الطاووس , تظل حتى آخر لحظة تفترض الخير لا الشر, و رغم تصورها وجود الشر فإنها لا يمكنها ان تعترف بذلك لنفسها بأي حال من الأحوال , ان...

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Căci o astfel de dragoste pătimașă, sălbatică, e ca o criză de nebunie, ca un ștreang în jurul gâtului, ca o boală, dar de îndată ce e satisfăcută, vălul de pe ochii omului se destramă și în sufletul...

Do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the world over.

Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.

Don’t quarrel with your bread and butter. They

هل تدرك يا سيدي العزيز ما معنى أن لا يعرف الإنسان إلى أين يذهب ؟ ذلك أنه لابد لكل إنسان أن يستطيع الذهاب إلى مكان ما.

Because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall alwa...