Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The chief thing is to love others likeyourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
