“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I can't bear it that some man, even with a lofty heart and the highest mind, should start from the ideal of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas… — 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
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true, prince, that you once declared that "beauty would save the world"? Great Heaven! The prince says that beauty saves… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower. The devil only knows what to make of it! What to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is something inn expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — 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 Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
