Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality,… — 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
“And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“One cannot prove anything here, but it is possible to be convinced.' How? By what?' By the experience of active love. Try… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because… — 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
