Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes (341 Quotes)
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- Don't be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- Kto sumienie posiada, niech cierpi, skoro zda? sobie sprawe; z pomy?ki. Be;dzie mu to kara; - obok katorgi.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Crime and Punishment")
- For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from Underground")
- In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from Underground")
- Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Notes from Underground")
- Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness, a perfectly natural, unaffected devotion to the old man who deserved so little.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
- 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.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
- Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
- Hell is the inability to love.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
- I really feel obliged to go to this confounded luncheon.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
- It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
- Love life more than the meaning of it?
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
- She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her--
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")
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