Fairly Intelligent Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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

“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Be the sun and all will see you.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

“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

“You magnify your failure to a crime, Vasya.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky