Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
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How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
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You don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. That's not what i call free will.
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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
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I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!
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Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
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I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.
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Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
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It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.
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Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
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I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.
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Catch several hares and you won't catch one.
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Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
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In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
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... people only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it.
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Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
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To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.
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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.