“Tragic phrases comfort the heart… Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. Remember my words, for although I shall talk… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And a real , undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is silent and long-suffering sorrow to be met with among the peasantry. It withdraws into itself and is still. But there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The question is not resolved in you, and there lies your great grief, for it urgently demands resolution...Even if it cannot be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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 in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image