Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
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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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No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.
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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
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I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
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Ivan is the incarnation of the refusal to be the only one saved. He throws in his lot with the damned and, for their sake, rejects eternity. If he had faith, he could, in fact, be saved, but others would be damned and suffering would continue. There is no possible salvation for the man who feels real compassion.
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The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
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I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
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In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.
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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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Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
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The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!
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If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
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Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.
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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
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For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
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Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?