If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are… — 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
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be… — 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
