“For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man... they should, surely… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And if once a girl’s heart is moved to pity, it’s more dangerous than anything. She is bound to want to ‘save… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I think everyone should love life above everything in the world." "Love life more than the meaning of it?" "Certainly, love it,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Cheap heroism is always easy, and even to sacrifice life is easy too; because it is only a case of hot blood… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Their favourite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Because I'll tell everything to you alone, because it's necessary, because you're necessary, because tomorrow I'll fall from the clouds, because tomorrow… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[Men] 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
“And then there's another snag you keep coming across: such decent and sensible people keep appearing in life, such wise men, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“At seven o’clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow. ‘Away with the past. I’ve done with the old… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Enough," he pronounced resolutely and triumphantly. "I've done with fancies, imaginary terrors and phantoms! Life is real! haven't I lived just now?… — 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… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You've turned to wood, he observed, "you've not only renounced life, your own interests and society's, your duty as a citizen and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For each now strives to isolate his person as much as possible from the others, wishing to experience within himself life's completeness,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea -- born in the human brain -- there always… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh! in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were shining to him from the abyss of space, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist! They don't recognise that humanity, developing by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You long for life and try to settle the problems of life by a logical tangle. And how tiresome, how insolent your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by isolation?' I asked him. 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Each man cannot judge except by himself," he said, blushing. "There will be entire freedom when it makes no difference whether one… — 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
![“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even more than so far. […] Living in solitude and embittering your soul with recollections, you can make your life very gloomy. There is a single refuge, a single medicine: art and creative work.” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba9/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_art_allow-me-to-give-you-some-advice-from-th_3092834.jpg)
![“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected all--laws, conscience faith, and, above all, the future life. He died and thought he'd go straight into darkness and death, but no--there was the future life before…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/311/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_future-life_the-devil-this-legend-is-about-paradise_1737212.jpg)
![“[Men] suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? ... But what about me [Satan]? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/124/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_life_men-suffer-of-course-but-then-they-live_3112046.jpg)
![“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 God?” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/09b/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_ethics_if-god-doesn-t-exist-man-is-the-chief-of_16023.jpg)
