Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Up
  • Age
  • Father

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hollywood
  • Gangster
  • Classy

• You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!

  

  Natalie Morales
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Europe

• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Nice

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Not Knowing

• If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Good
  • Work
  • Different

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • Limits
  • Inventing

• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Death

• SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Help
  • Dream

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I can play songs that I hear from a movie and just play it a few times on the keyboard. I will hit all the notes on the keyboard until I find the right key, and then I will play the rest of the song.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Play

• Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Journey
  • Distress
  • Sorrowless

• She Clinton has a terrible record as secretary of state. I mean, she's literally created ISIS. If you look at her, between her and Obama, they're the ones - we have this big ISIS problem they created with their bad policies and their bad thinking.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Bad

• Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Fighting
  • Suffering
  • Fate

• Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Suffering
  • Fact
  • Man Is