“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember… — 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
“For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren't they?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Your hand is cold, mine is as hot as fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! ... Oh, how unbearable is the happy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Months and years!' he would exclaim. 'Why recon the days? One day is enough for a man to know all happiness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And all will be happy, all the millions of creatures except the hundred thousand who rule over them. For only we, we… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If you ever fall in love with some one, God give you happiness with her! I won't wish anything for her, for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!” — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“with love one can live even without happiness. Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.” — 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
“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“With quietism like yours one could fill a hundred years with happiness. Whether one showed you an execution or a little finger,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Rebellion? I don't like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. "One cannot live by rebellion, and I want… — 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
