“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.” — 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
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is better to go wrong in one's own way than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my sufferings.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas… — 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
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