Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.
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It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
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They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
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I am too young and I've loved you too much.
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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
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Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
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What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?
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It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave.
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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.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.
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What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.
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Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
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The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
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Beauty will save the world.
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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.