Time Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pine trees are not like human beings, they go for a long time without altering...”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is not time that matters, but you yourself”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Now is the time to throw a bottle at their heads," I thought to myself. I picked up the bottle... and filled…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her--”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I was once happy in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I am glad that at such a moment my young man turned out to be not so reasonable; the time will come…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that’s left…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But Stepan Trofimovitch’s activity ceased almost at the moment it began, owing, so to say, to a “vortex of combined circumstances.” And…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon;…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But I ask again, are there many like Thee? And could thou believe for one moment that men, too, could face such…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I worship her, Alyosha, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Not one people has ever yet organised itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“With the anthill, the respectable race of ants began and with the anthill they will probably end, which does the greatest credit…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To begin with, at home I spent most of my time reading. I wanted to stifle all that was continuously boiling up…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But the foolish children will have to learn some day that, rebels though they be and riotous from nature, they are too…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Your hand is cold, mine is as hot as fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! ... Oh, how unbearable is the happy…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky