Beauty Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Beauty is a riddle”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It's difficult to judge beauty; I am not ready yet. Beauty is a riddle.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And I realise now, more than ever, that I have lost all my best years!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every man who has no friend…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I love beauty. I am a nihilist, but I love beauty. Do nihilists not love beauty? They”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I believe there is nothing lovelier, deeper, more sympathetic, and more perfect than the Savior; there is in the world only one…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“it may happen that he sends a letter in verse, a mag-ni-fi-cent one, but which afterward he might wish to bring back…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Connoisseurs of Russian beauty could have foretold with certainty that this fresh, still youthful beauty would lose its harmony by the age…

— 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

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“All we Karamazovs are such insects. And angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brutal sensual stunt and any great deed, even…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky