Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
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Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
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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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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.
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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
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When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
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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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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man...
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?
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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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To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.
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...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!
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My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.