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
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
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
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
“Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moment of… — 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
Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are… — 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
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — 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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his… — 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
“I was twenty-four, but even then I led the gloomy, disorganized, solitary existence of a recluse. I stayed away from people, avoided… — 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
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
