And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love. — 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