“Dear friends, don't be afraid of life! How good is life when one does something good and just!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It may be that you ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The last moment had come, the last drops had to be drained! So a man will sometimes go through half an hour… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hm ... yes ... a man holds the fate of the world in his two hands, and yet, simply because he is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Thus a man will sometimes suffer half an hour of mortal fear with a robber, but once the knife is finally at… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I was also afraid to the point of illness of being ridiculous, and therefore slavishly worshipped routine in everything to do with… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“it's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book—afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that these legendary gentlemen were capable of experiencing, even to an intense degree, the sensation of fear--otherwise they… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand how, up to now, an atheist could know there is no God and not kill himself at once. To… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As always, I do not blame anyone. I've tried great debauchery and exhausted my strength in it; but I don't like debauchery… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Brother, these last two months I've found in myself a new man. A new man has risen up in me. He was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Each man cannot judge except by himself," he said, blushing. "There will be entire freedom when it makes no difference whether one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
