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.
("Notes from Underground")
More Quotes from Fyodor Dostoyevsky:
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
So that you remember that you kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss yours.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Nature QuotesI love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Beckham
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Richard Rogers
For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
Niccolo Machiavelli