On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position. — 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
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.” — 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
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man… — 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
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
“These young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices. They… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — 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
“Where is it.. where is it I have read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — 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
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
“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
“Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ...… — 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
“he was partly a young man of our time - that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile, even in spite of all my desire, I could never imagine to myself that there is no future life and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They did not strive to gain knowledge of life as we strive to understand it, because their lives were full. But their… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“One cannot prove anything here, but it is possible to be convinced.' How? By what?' By the experience of active love. Try… — 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
