Dreams Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And wasn't it all the same whether it was a dream or a reality?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I used to dream like that, till i nearly went out of my mind ...”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I create entire romances in my dreams.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Come, let us go and try it. Why dream about it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“it was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that…

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“[The Devil] My dream is to become incarnate, but so that it's final, irrevocable, in some fat, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound merchant's wife, and to…

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“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 Dostoyevsky

“it's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious…

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“I did dream of it, chiefly because 'all things are lawful.' That was quite right what you taught me, for you talked…

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“...for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“one deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one’s soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I dare not dream of hope, for i am not worthy of it. But after a word from you i can accept…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Yes, I had this dream then, my dream of the third of November! They tease me now that it was just a…

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“It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as…

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“I tell you what, I can't help coming here tomorrow, I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the…

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“I am sorry I cannot say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But even to him I used to go only when such a spell came, and my dreams had reached such happiness that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book—afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,'…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But that is what the scoffers don’t understand: “He had a dream,” they say, “a delirium, a hallucination.” Eh! As if that’s…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had not far to go; he knew indeed how many steps it was from the gate of his lodging house: exactly…

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“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A fresh dream-fresh happiness! A fresh rush of delicate, voluptuous poison! What is real life to him ! To his corrupted eyes…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact:…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was in the hospital from the middle of Lent till after Easter. When he was better, he remembered the dreams he…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Listen, listen!" I interrupted her. "Forgive me if I tell you something else… I tell you what, I can't help coming here…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But these are all golden dreams. Oh, tell me, who first announced, who was the first to proclaim that man does dirty…

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“I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And it all flew away like a dream--even my passion, and yet it really was strong and true, but...where has it gone…

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“Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of…

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“Can it be that he has only seen her in seductive visions, and that this passion has been nothing but a dream?…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky