Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

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• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  

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• Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

  

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• When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

  

  Stevie Wonder
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• He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

  

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• I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

  

  Rachel Caine
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• Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
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• Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Up
  • God
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• The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Some people seem to be born to suffer.

  

  August Strindberg
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• With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• To perceive is to suffer.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Perceive

• I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Training
  • Suffer
  • I Hate

• To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

  

  Muhammad Ali
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• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  

  Plato
  • Violence
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• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  

  Euripides
  • Hurt
  • Suffer
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• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

  

  Euripides
  • Violence
  • Slave
  • Suffer

• Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • War
  • Man

• What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Suffer
  • Injury
  • Rising

• Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do, & didn't save many, anyway; but if he had been damned for the race that would have been act of a size proper to a god, & would have saved the whole race. However, why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • Men
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• Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Shows
  • Found
  • Modern

• Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Knows
  • Mask
  • Unfair

• I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Suffer
  • Purified