Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“To insects--sensual lust.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Money is the honey of humanity.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Ah, insanın birliğine inanmayın.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The soul is cured through children.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Life is, and death is not at all”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The righteous man departs, but his light remains.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Thrash her, thrash her! Why have you stopped?” shouted voices in the crowd.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You're necessary to me, and that's why I've come to you”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“People who can speak well, speak briefly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You have no tenderness, nothing but truth, and so you judge unjustly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This is not it, this is not it! No, this is not it at all!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But... that's absurd!' he cried, flushing. 'Your poem is in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him- as you meant it…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“... the extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted, which unaccountably and suddenly came over him.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It may be that you ought to thank God; why, for all you know he may be preserving you for something. Be…

— 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

“We Russians cannot say anything in our own language ... At least we haven't yet.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Yo no he comprendido jamás cómo se puede amar al prójimo. A mi juicio es precisamente al prójimo a quien no se…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But of course that is because I do not respect myself. Can a man of perception respect himself at all? Come, can…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I remember that he was always trying to expound to me in his broken Russian some special system of astronomy he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into…

— 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

“Do you know, to my thinking it's a good thing sometimes to be absurd; it's better in fact, it makes it easier…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I understand, of course, what an upheaval of the universe it will be when everything in heaven and earth blends in one…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets –secrets which one would hesitate to tell…

— 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

“They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Amad a toda la creación en conjunto y a cada uno de sus elementos: amad a cada hoja del ramaje, a cada…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Fierce and solitary he awaited death, mistrustful and hostile to all”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“So that you remember that you kissed my hand, but I didn't kiss yours.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You mustn't ask too much of human endurance, one must be merciful.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky