Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what… — 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
