“Oh, Karamazov, I am profoundly unhappy. I sometimes fancy all sorts of things, that every one is laughing at me, the whole… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am very sad, and if only it were possible to resurrect him, I would give everything in the whole world.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For the whole world to vanish into thin air, or for me not to drink my tea? I say, let the world… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy;… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] 'The question now,' my young thinker reflected, 'is whether or not it is possible for such a period ever to… — 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
“He was in the hospital from the middle of Lent till after Easter. When he was better, he remembered the dreams he… — 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
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier… — 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] 'The question now,' my young thinker reflected, 'is whether or not it is possible for such a period ever to come. If it does come, then everything will be resolved and mankind will finally be settled. But since, in view of man's inveterate stupidity, it may not be settled for another…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f58/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_thousand-years_the-devil-the-question-now-my-young-thin_1928098.jpg)
