“Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-four, but even then I led the gloomy, disorganized, solitary existence of a recluse. I stayed away from people, avoided… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moment of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he… — 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
