“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man... they should, surely… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brutal sensual stunt and any great deed, even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[Men] 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
“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But that is what the scoffers don’t understand: “He had a dream,” they say, “a delirium, a hallucination.” Eh! As if that’s… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, I had this dream then, my dream of the third of November! They tease me now that it was just a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are moments in the life of old liars who have been play-acting all their lives when they are so carried away… — 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
“In every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea -- born in the human brain -- there always… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh! in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were shining to him from the abyss of space, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist! They don't recognise that humanity, developing by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I think everyone should love life above everything in the world." "Love life more than the meaning of it?" "Certainly, love it,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For each now strives to isolate his person as much as possible from the others, wishing to experience within himself life's completeness,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You've turned to wood, he observed, "you've not only renounced life, your own interests and society's, your duty as a citizen and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And then there's another snag you keep coming across: such decent and sensible people keep appearing in life, such wise men, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“At seven o’clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow. ‘Away with the past. I’ve done with the old… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Enough," he pronounced resolutely and triumphantly. "I've done with fancies, imaginary terrors and phantoms! Life is real! haven't I lived just now?… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Because I'll tell everything to you alone, because it's necessary, because you're necessary, because tomorrow I'll fall from the clouds, because tomorrow… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Their favourite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I really believe that at the start of the journey the condemned man, sitting in the tumbril, must feel that an infinite… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] And me? I suffer, and still I do not live. I am an x in an indeterminate equation. I am… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, now, life, life! I lifted up my hands and called upon eternal truth, not with words, but with tears; ecstasy, immeasurable… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our… — 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
![“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even more than so far. […] Living in solitude and embittering your soul with recollections, you can make your life very gloomy. There is a single refuge, a single medicine: art and creative work.” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ba9/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_advice_allow-me-to-give-you-some-advice-from-th_3092834.jpg)
![“[Men] suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? ... But what about me [Satan]? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/124/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_life_men-suffer-of-course-but-then-they-live_3112046.jpg)
![“[The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind, that's where the business should start! One should begin with that, with that--oh, blind men, of no understanding! Once mankind has renounced God, one and all (and I believe that…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a0/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_business_the-devil-in-my-opinion-there-is-no-need_986728.jpg)
![“[The Devil] And me? I suffer, and still I do not live. I am an x in an indeterminate equation. I am some sort of ghost of life who has lost all ends and beginnings, and I've finally even forgotten what to call myself...You're eternally angry, you want reason only, but I will repeat to you once…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9e6/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_beyond-the-stars_the-devil-and-me-i-suffer-and-still-i-do_907542.jpg)
