“Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No, life is only given to me once and I shall never have it again ... #YOLO!!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dear friends, don't be afraid of life! How good is life when one does something good and just!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Life is full of the comic and is only majestic in its inner sense,” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me more than anything.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.” — 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
“Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“it may happen that he sends a letter in verse, a mag-ni-fi-cent one, but which afterward he might wish to bring back… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.” — 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
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are cases when one may sometimes burn one's ships and not go home again. Life does not consist only of lunches… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But then, we have science, and with its help we shall discover Truth once more; then we shall accept it in full… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“..such a cross is too much for you. You wanted to regenerate another man in yourself through suffering; I say just remember… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I think every one should love life above everything in the world.” “Love life more than the meaning of it?” “Certainly, love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Well, listen then. On the other side, fresh young lives thrown away for want of help and by thousands, on every side!… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A fresh dream-fresh happiness! A fresh rush of delicate, voluptuous poison! What is real life to him ! To his corrupted eyes… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As soon as he reflected seriously he was convinced of the existence of God and immortality, and at once he instinctively said… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I've been sitting here now, and do you know what I was saying to myself? If I did not believe in life,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Here was my whole life hanging on his one word! Surely I was serious enough?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced of the existence” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.” — 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