“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would rather destroy himself though he had bread in abundance.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen, Kolya, by the way, you are going to be a very unhappy man in your life...But on the whole you will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“with love one can live even without happiness. Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.” — 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
“Can I possibly not understand myself that I'm a lost man? But--why can't I resurrect? Yes! it only takes being calculating and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I know about an actual murder over a watch, it's in all the newspapers now. If a writer had invented it, the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And if once a girl’s heart is moved to pity, it’s more dangerous than anything. She is bound to want to ‘save… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Well, listen then. On the other side, fresh young lives thrown away for want of help and by thousands, on every side!… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Cheap heroism is always easy, and even to sacrifice life is easy too; because it is only a case of hot blood… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What was the meaning of this cheap agitation over trifles which I had noticed in myself of late, which hindered me from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“One life passed, another began, then that passed and a third began, and there's still no end. All the ends are cut… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And even if, in this manifestation, our life frequently turns out to be rubbishy, it's nevertheless life and not just the extraction… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No, life is only given to me once and I shall never have it again; I don't want to wait for 'the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Why did I accept death? But I will ask, what use was life to me after that revolver had been raised against… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Is there a living man in the country?" cried the Russian hero. I cry the same, though I am not a hero,… — 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
![“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected all--laws, conscience faith, and, above all, the future life. He died and thought he'd go straight into darkness and death, but no--there was the future life before…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/311/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_future-life_the-devil-this-legend-is-about-paradise_1737212.jpg)
