May Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

...chance may do anything.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer so that I may love.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky