“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have… — 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 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
“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
“If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation… — 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
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
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender… — 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
“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my sufferings.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he… — 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
