Love Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

...chance may do anything.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love life more than the meaning of it?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

God knows what is in me in place of me.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If not reason, then the devil.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

— 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

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

— 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

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

“Or else I'd try to force myself to fall in love; in fact, I did it twice. And I suffered, gentlemen, I…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And one may ask what is the good of a love that must constantly be spied on, and what is the worth…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Thou didst not come down from the cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the cross…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky