“Precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the hearth knows how to find what is precious” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster. — Jenna Jameson Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky says, “love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams” (The Brothers Karamazov).” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“When you’re surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case… — Hermann Hesse 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
My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that’s left… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down.… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“I believe that nothing is more beautiful, profound, sympathetic, reasonable, brave, and perfect than Christ. With jealous love, I say to myself,… — Geir Kjetsaa Copy Share Image
Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the… — Colin Wilson 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
“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You had two prerequisites.” Regin plopped down on a snowbank. “And I do believe I have Russian ex-mil contacts, and I speak… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“you make me laugh, with your metaphysical anguish, its just that you're scared silly, frightened of life, of men of action, of… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Lying alone in bed in New York City, an anxious Goldman decided she could get the money Berkman needed to buy a… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Two kinds of writers. Those who think this life is all there is, and want to describe everything: the fall, the battle,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
“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
If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka. — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired… — Rien Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating… — Anonymous 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)
