Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.
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It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.
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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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A man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.
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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
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Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
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Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.
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Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
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Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.
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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.