Children Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of…

— 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

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for later years than some good memory, especially a menory connected…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I could have done even better, miss, and I'd know a lot more, if it wasn't for my destiny ever since childhood.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There’s a book here in which I read about the trial of a Jew, who took a child of four years old…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky