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

“Fancy pants, the monk can dance!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You’ve already said all that. Don’t embroider on it, but prove it!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If the suffering of children goes to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“When i look around me, i realize that people don't care, hardly anyone does, and i'm the only one who cannot bear…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is something inn expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance… Never give a work to the printer before it…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The painter Kramskoy has a remarkable painting entitled The Contemplator: it depicts a forest in winter, and in the forest, standing all…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“No, it is not a commonplace, sir! If up to now, for example, I have been told to 'love my neighbor,' and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky