“For God's sake, even her parents no longer read Dostoyevsky--haven't they suffered enough, they would say; after thirty years of communism, didn't… — Irina Reyn 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
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat… — Richard Elman 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
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley 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
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
We talk about a civilization and love and we're seeing it at the end. So many people around the world are -… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Dostoyevsky was an influence - what's his name, the saintly priest in 'The Brothers Karamazov,' Father Zossima... 'Kiss the earth,' he'd say.… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you’ve read Tolstoy’s Hadji Mourat? Perhaps you’ve read The Cossacks? Perhaps you’ve read the story “A Prisoner in the Caucasus”? They… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of… — Valerian Maykov Copy Share Image
“Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything. —FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St.… — Tadashi Shoji Copy Share Image
I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind… — Jewel Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the “death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God.”1” — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
![“I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.” quote by Vera Nazarian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/002/vera-nazarian-1671_bronte_i-would-say-it-was-ifluence-all-the-gree_2921445.jpg)