Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
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Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
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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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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.
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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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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
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Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.
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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
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Everything passes, only truth remains.
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
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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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Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.
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I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
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Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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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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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
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Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.
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In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
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You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.