In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in… — 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
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Or else I'd try to force myself to fall in love; in fact, I did it twice. And I suffered, gentlemen, I… — 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
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a… — 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
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Thou didst not come down from the cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the cross… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And one may ask what is the good of a love that must constantly be spied on, and what is the worth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Give a man love and he will trade his crown for a kiss. Break a man's heart and he will raise empires… — 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
