“Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?” — 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
“Being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If she'd been lame or a hunchback I'd have probably fallen in love with her even more... Yes, it was a sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For anyone to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her--” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And how can one love two at once? With two different kinds of love? That’s interesting . . . poor idiot” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face--love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“he did you; be reconciled with him truly. If you are repentant, it means that you love. And if you love, you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When you were talking to me here, I couldn’t sit still; when you cried here, when you tormented yourself because you were… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“She’s an arrogant woman! She doesn’t want to admit that she’s doing it to benefit others! Oh, these vile characters! Their love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Somehow I cannot help being reminded of a frail, consumptive girl, at whom one sometimes looks with compassion, sometimes with sympathetic love,… — fyodor dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I worship her, Alyosha, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she… — 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
“Farther on, in another place, she wrote: ‘Do not consider my words as the sickly ecstasies of a diseased mind, but you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From the house of my childhood I have brought nothing but precious memories, for there are no memories more precious than those… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The poor little thing, she'd saved this student's letter as a treasure and had run to fetch this precious treasure of hers,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. But I predict that even in that very… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“with love one can live even without happiness. Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... the face of a man often hinders many people not practiced in love, from loving him.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For any one to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing like it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love beauty. I am a nihilist, but I love beauty. Do nihilists not love beauty? They” — 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