Life Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love life more than the meaning of it?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Where is it.. where is it I have read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“These young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices. They…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ...…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“They did not strive to gain knowledge of life as we strive to understand it, because their lives were full. But their…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And meanwhile, even in spite of all my desire, I could never imagine to myself that there is no future life and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“he was partly a young man of our time - that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One cannot prove anything here, but it is possible to be convinced.' How? By what?' By the experience of active love. Try…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky