Desire Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky