“What was the meaning of this cheap agitation over trifles which I had noticed in myself of late, which hindered me from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.” — 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 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
“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
“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
“For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brutal sensual stunt and any great deed, even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not… — 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
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — 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
“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
“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
“My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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 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 Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I really believe that at the start of the journey the condemned man, sitting in the tumbril, must feel that an infinite… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] And me? I suffer, and still I do not live. I am an x in an indeterminate equation. I am… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, now, life, life! I lifted up my hands and called upon eternal truth, not with words, but with tears; ecstasy, immeasurable… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“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
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“- 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
“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
“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
![“[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/i/124/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_life_men-suffer-of-course-but-then-they-live_3112046.jpg)
![“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/i/ba9/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_advice_allow-me-to-give-you-some-advice-from-th_3092834.jpg)
![“[The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind, that's where the business should start! One should begin with that, with that--oh, blind men, of no understanding! Once mankind has renounced God, one and all (and I believe that…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a0/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_business_the-devil-in-my-opinion-there-is-no-need_986728.jpg)
![“[The Devil] And me? I suffer, and still I do not live. I am an x in an indeterminate equation. I am some sort of ghost of life who has lost all ends and beginnings, and I've finally even forgotten what to call myself...You're eternally angry, you want reason only, but I will repeat to you once…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e6/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_beyond-the-stars_the-devil-and-me-i-suffer-and-still-i-do_907542.jpg)
