Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Heart
• Desire
• Grief
• Hopelessness
• Lamentations

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• Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Grief