Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

They may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

The door from the next room suddenly opened with a timid, quiet creak, as if thus announcing the entrance of a very insignificant person...

To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.

The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.

The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.

Unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulli...

Viaţa e un rai în care toţi ne desfătăm, numai că noi nu vrem să ne dăm seama de asta, căci dacă am vrea, chiar mîine tot pâmîntul ar fi un rai.

Why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just conceiving … the very same ideas? And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the e...

А можда ви то сад говорите у бунилу – закључи генералица, па надменим гестом одбаци од себе фотографију на сто.Александра је узе, њој приђе и Аделаида, па је обе стадоше разгледати. У тај мах се Аглај...

İçinde bulunduğunuz kötü duruma karşın başka türlü olamayacağını bundan sonra değişemeyeceğinizi dahası bunun için zamanınız ve inancınız olsa bile değişmeyi istemeyeceğinizi anlamanızın doyumsuz tadı...

În epoca noastră sunt în floare mediocritatea și nepăsarea, cultul inculturii, lenea, incapacitatea și pretenția de a primi totul de-a gata. Nimeni nu-și mai pune probleme, rar întâlnești un om frămân...

¿Creen que no lo siento? Cuanto más bebo, más sufro. Por eso, para sentir más, para sufrir más, me entrego a la bebida. Yo bebo para sufrir más profundamente.

Would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element.

With love one can live even without happiness. Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.

Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there’s no escaping it.

Well, legislators and leaders of men, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the anci...

That is all about the raising of Lazarus, she whispered severely and abruptly, and turning away she stood motionless, not daring to raise her eyes to him. She still trembled feverishly. The candle-end...

Să nu-l învinuieşti, Vanea, mă întrerupse Nataşa, şi să nu râzi de el! Ar fi nedrept să-l judeci ca pe oricare altul. Că doar el nu-i ca alţii, ca mine, ori ca tine, de pildă. E încă un copil, a fost...

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Stepan Trofimovich managed to touch the deepest strings in his friend's heart and to call forth in him the first, still uncertain sensation of that age-old, sacred anguish which the chosen soul, havin...