Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great...

أنا أري أن قتل إنسان بسبب ارتكابه جريمة قتل هو قصاص لا تناسب بينه وبين الجريمة نفسها. إن قتل قاتل أفظع كثيرا من جريمة القتل التي ارتكبها ذلك القاتل. إن الإنسان الذي يقتله القتلة،إذ يذبحونه ليلا في غاب...

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.

Fiindcă totdeauna am grijă să-mi amintesc că punctualitatea este politeţea regilor

If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. However, I have the power to end my existence, although I d...

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

الشرفاء يسهل خداعهم، حتى إذا اكتشفوا أنهم خُدعوا، اعتصموا بنوع من الاحتقار المتكبر، بدلاً من أن يلجأوا إلى القانون، إذا كان ذلك فى الإمكان.

ماذا يفيده وماذا يجديه أن يستمر في الصراع والكفاح؟ أيحيا من أجل أن يوجد؟ ألا انه كان طوال حياته مستعدا لأن يضحي بوجوده ألف مرة في سبيل فكرة، في سبيل أمل، بل وفي سبيل تحقيق نزوة! إن الوجود في حد ذاته ل...

Let life go hang, as long as these loved ones of ours are happy.

I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don’t co...

لقد رأيت أناسا ما أن ينصبّ عليهم سطل من ماء بارد حتى يجحدوا لا أعمالهم فحسب، بل أفكارهم أيضا، وحتى يضحكوا أنفسهم مما كانوا منذ ساعة واحدة يعدونه مقدسا. ما أسهل ذلك عليهم

It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.

[The Devil] I sincerely love people--oh, so much of what has been said about me is slander!

إنّ في البشرِ -وَحتىٰ في أعتىٰ المجرمين- من السذاجةِ وَالطيبةِ فوق ما قد نتخيّل. وَهذا يَصدُقُ علينا نحن أيضًا

إن أقوى اللذات لتأتينا في حالة اليأس تحديداً ، خاصة إذا شعرنا أن المأزق الذي وقعنا فيه، لامهرب منه

There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divul...

Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age—it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. For every one strives to keep his individuality as apart as possible, wi...

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the...

You see gentlemen, there are ideas . . . that is, you see, when some ideas are said out loud, put into words, they come out terribly stupid. They come out so that you're ashamed of yourself. But why?...