Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.
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Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window.
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I have a plan-to go mad.
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Everything seems stupid when it fails.
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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
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Without God all things are permitted.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
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If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.
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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
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Every man needs a place to go to.
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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
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I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.
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Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.