Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there’s no escaping it.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.
She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her
She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and...
Resulta curioso y ridículo lo mucho que a veces puede expresar la mirada de un hombre vergonzoso, morbosamente púdico, tocado por el amor, precisamente cuando este hombre preferiría que la tierra se a...
Raskolnikov saw in part why Sonia could not bring herself to read to him and the more he saw this, the more roughly and irritably he insisted on her doing so. He understood only too well how painful i...
Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.
People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's...
Pentru mine nu exista o idee superioara aceleia ca Dumnezeu nu exista. In sprijinul meu sta istoria omenirii. Omul n-a facut altceva decat sa-si nascoceasca un Dumnezeu, pentru a putea trai fara se uc...
Orice poate fi discutabil pana la infinit, dar din mine nu a razbit decat negarea, fara niciun fel de generozitate si fara niciun fel de forta. Asadar, nici macar o negare adevarata n-am fost in stare...
Only a handful of people could be saved in all the world; these were the elect and clean, destined to begin a new race of humans and a new life, to renew and clean the earth,
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.
One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible.
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens, how I should have respected myself, then. I should have respected myself because I should at least have been capable of being lazy; there would...
My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins, who sucked the lifeblood of the poor, and you call that a c...
Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to the animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it,
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that. It's everything, everything, Whoever learns will at once immediately become happy, that same moment...And when did you find out...