Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

[T]hat they may believe you, you must say it as obscurely as possible, just like that, simply in hints. You must only give them a peep of the truth, just enough to tantalize them. They'll tell a story...

a wise man is not afraid to face the truth

Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.

There are people who feel deeply but are somehow beaten down. Their buffoonery is something like a spiteful irony against those to whom they dare not speak the truth directly because of a long-standin...

حقا إنني لا أدري لماذا الحياة قصيرة هذا القصر كله. لا شك أن الغاية من قصرها هي ألا تكون مملة. ذلك أن الحياة هي أيضا عمل فني من أعمال الخالق الأعظم صاغها صيغة نهائية كاملة كقصيدة من قصائد بوشكين. إن ال...

The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man.

ثم إنك تعوزك البساطة.. إنك تنتقد، تُسرف في التفكير ..رأسك هو وحده الذي يعمل !! وإن كبريائك قوية، ولكنك لا تجرؤ على تحقيق شئ

Oh, how awful is truth on earth! That exquisite creature, that gentle spirit, that heaven - she was a tyrant, she was the insufferable tyrant and torture of my soul! I should be unfair to myself if I...

Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

In every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea -- born in the human brain -- there always remains something -- some sediment -- which cannot be expressed to others, though on...

Your money or your life!

I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I extinguished myself and shot myself through the heart. But never, never have I ceased to lo...

إنَّ جوهرَ العاطفة الدينية مستقلٌ عنْ جميعِ البراهين، وجميعِ الأفعالِ السيّئة وجميعِ الجرائمِ وجميعِ مذاهبِ الإلحاد. إنَّ في هذهِ العاطفة شيئًا لا يمكنُ أنْ تنالهُ أدلّةُ الملحدين في يومٍ مِنَ الأيام....

Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly,...

الإنسان يألف الرخاء والترف بسهولة كبيرة فيصعب عليه بعد ذلك أن يستغني عنهما منتى أصبحا من الضروريات شيئاً بعد شيء

الحب الذى يخالطه الحقد، عندما يزول هذا الحب لا يتبقى سوى العذاب الشديد.

And we may ask the scornful themselves: If our hope is a dream, when will you build up your edifice and order things justly by your intellect alone, without Christ? If they declare that it is they who...

I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that li...