Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches; look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!” — John Tagliabue Copy Share Image
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.” — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
There's definitely a culture of Russian literature in Turkey. And in the U.S. too, to an extent - especially Dostoevsky. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on.… — Lindqvist John Ajvide Copy Share Image
“Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don’t trouble it, don’t harass them, don’t deprive… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It is a true… — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement is that? For a… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He main retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp. Dostoevsky said once, 'There is only one thing that I dread:… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
![“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The novelist also carefully examines moral indifference and corruption which leads him to the questions: “What if reason takes the side of…” quote by George L. Kline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c87/george-l-kline-239544_dostoevsky_dostoyevsky-eloquently-proves-that-heart_53378.jpg)
