Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

Alyosha exclaimed. I think that everyone should love life before everything else in the world. Love life more than its meaning? Certainly, love it before logic, as you say, certainly before logic, and...

Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew that no one could hurt him. This was for him an axiom, assumed once and for all without questi...

Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.

Alyosha, was not at all a fanatic, and, in my view at least, even not at all a mystic. I will give my full opinion beforehand: he was simply an early lover of mankind,1 and if he threw himself into th...

Am observat ca intr-o incapere prea stramta pana si gandurile ti le simti inghesuite. Iar mie, cand meditam la viitoarele mele romane, imi placea intotdeauna sa ma plimb prin odaie de la un capat la c...

An angel in heaven I've told already; but I want to tell an angel on earth.

And I fancy, besides, that we seem like such different people ... through various circumstances, that we cannot perhaps have many points in common. But yet I don't believe in that last idea myself, fo...

And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give a true account, for there were no thoughts in Ivan's mind but something very vague. He felt that he had lost his bearings.

And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?

And how can one love two at once? With two different kinds of love? That’s interesting . . . poor idiot

And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly appeared when their mysteriously appointed season arrived, to go spre...

And how they set me up in court! They really set me up! Even if they hadn’t set you up, you’d have been convicted anyway, Alyosha said, sighing. Yes, the local public is sick of me!

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even s...

And indeed, human beings in general are fond, even inordinately fond, of being trampled on, have you noticed that? But of women it's especially true. One might even say they that can't get along witho...

And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone, and not in cruel pleasures as now?

And man has actually invented God. And what's strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the...

And so—if it's shame, let it be shame, if it's disgrace, let it be disgrace, if it's degradation, let it be degradation, and the worse, the better—that's what I chose.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for a time, hate or love, if only not to sit with your...

And what if, besides love, there can be no respect either, if on the contrary there is already loathing, contempt, revulsion—what then?