If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole. — 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
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance… Never give a work to the printer before it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN… — 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
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — 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
“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
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
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered,… — 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
