--- title: "18 May Quotes By Fyodor Dostoevsky" description: "18 May quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Plus more from Fyodor Dostoevsky and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_love_i-want-to-suffer-so-that-i-may-love-1251_125177.png" --- > [I want to suffer so that I may love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/i-want-to-suffer-so-that-i-may-love/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_love_i-want-to-suffer-so-that-i-may-love-1251_125177.png) > [...chance may do anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/chance-may-do-anything/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a40/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_chance_chance-may-do-anything-1475433_1475433.png) > [If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/if-man-has-one-good-memory-to-go-by-that-may-be-enough-to-save-him/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_enough_if-man-has-one-good-memory-to-go-by-that_757842.png) > [Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/bad-people-are-to-be-found-everywhere-but-even-among-the-worst-there/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_bad-people_bad-people-are-to-be-found-everywhere-bu_2008808.png) > [And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/and-the-more-i-drink-the-more-i-feel-it-that-s-why-i-drink-too-i-try/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_drink_and-the-more-i-drink-the-more-i-feel-it_1348995.png) > [I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/i-think-that-if-one-is-faced-by-inevitable-destruction-if-a-house-is/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bee/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_destruction_i-think-that-if-one-is-faced-by-inevitab_2411913.jpg) > [...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/one-may-say-anything-about-the-history-of-the-world-anything-that/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c0/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_history_one-may-say-anything-about-the-history-o_407595.png) > [What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/what-man-wants-is-simply-independent-choice-whatever-that/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_choice_what-man-wants-is-simply-independent-cho_2442057.jpg) > [To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/to-achieve-perfection-one-must-first-begin-by-not-understanding-many/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c16/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_achieve_to-achieve-perfection-one-must-first-beg_1150632.png) > [To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/to-strive-consciously-for-an-object-and-to-engage-in-engineering-that/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1be/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_engineering_to-strive-consciously-for-an-object-and_320222.png) > [At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/at-some-thoughts-one-stands-perplexed-especially-at-the-sight-of-men/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ca/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_all-things_at-some-thoughts-one-stands-perplexed-es_1776587.png) > [Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/of-course-boredom-may-lead-you-to-anything-it-is-boredom-sets-one/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_being-thankful_of-course-boredom-may-lead-you-to-anythi_2105282.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/one-s-own-free-unfettered-choice-one-s-own-caprice-however-wild-it/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5eb/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_advantage_one-s-own-free-unfettered-choice-one-s-o_752846.jpg) > [The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/the-man-who-lies-to-himself-can-be-more-easily-offended-than-anyone/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_caught_the-man-who-lies-to-himself-can-be-more_2838961.png) > [After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/after-all-i-quite-naturally-want-to-live-in-order-to-fulfill-my-whole/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f43/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_alive_after-all-i-quite-naturally-want-to-live_565245.png) > [Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/where-is-it-i-ve-read-that-someone-condemned-to-death-says-or-thinks/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_darkness_where-is-it-i-ve-read-that-someone-conde_221777.jpg) > [It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/it-seemed-clear-to-me-that-life-and-the-world-somehow-depended-upon/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4a/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_cease_it-seemed-clear-to-me-that-life-and-the_404706.jpg) > [Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/honoured-sir-poverty-is-not-a-vice-that-s-a-true-saying-yet-i-know/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e10/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_beggary_honoured-sir-poverty-is-not-a-vice-that_347633.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Fyodor Dostoevsky > [Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/believe-to-the-end-even-if-all-men-went-astray-and-you-were-left-the/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/you-are-a-man-still-young-so-to-say-in-your-first-youth-and-so-put/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/there-is-only-one-salvation-for-you-take-yourself-up-and-make/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/it-is-true-i-am-a-complete-stranger-to-these-people-but-they-are-not/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [Everything seems stupid when it fails.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/everything-seems-stupid-when-it-fails/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/love-to-throw-yourself-on-the-earth-and-kiss-it-kiss-the-earth-and/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/they-have-this-social-justification-for-every-nasty-thing-they-do/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [Be the sun and all will see you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/be-the-sun-and-all-will-see-you/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/if-you-are-penitent-you-love-and-if-you-love-you-are-of-god-all/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/to-kill-for-murder-is-a-punishment-incomparably-worse-than-the-crime/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [“You magnify your failure to a crime, Vasya.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/you-magnify-your-failure-to-a-crime-vasya/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/the-death-of-a-child-is-the-greatest-reason-to-doubt-the-existence-of/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/in-a-way-there-s-only-a-fine-shade-of-difference-between-the-healthy/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/now-answer-me-sincerely-honestly-who-lives-past-forty-i-ll-tell-you/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) > [“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/there-are-crimes-that-are-truly-uncomely-with-crimes-whatever-they/) [Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/fyodor-dostoevsky/#itemlist", "name": "18 May Quotes By Fyodor Dostoevsky", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to suffer so that I may love.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/i-want-to-suffer-so-that-i-may-love/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_love_i-want-to-suffer-so-that-i-may-love-1251_125177.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_love_i-want-to-suffer-so-that-i-may-love-1251_125177.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cac/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_love_i-want-to-suffer-so-that-i-may-love-1251_125177.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I want to suffer so that I may love.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "...chance may do anything.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/chance-may-do-anything/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a40/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_chance_chance-may-do-anything-1475433_1475433.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a40/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_chance_chance-may-do-anything-1475433_1475433.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a40/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_chance_chance-may-do-anything-1475433_1475433.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“...chance may do anything.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/if-man-has-one-good-memory-to-go-by-that-may-be-enough-to-save-him/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_enough_if-man-has-one-good-memory-to-go-by-that_757842.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_enough_if-man-has-one-good-memory-to-go-by-that_757842.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_enough_if-man-has-one-good-memory-to-go-by-that_757842.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fyodor Dostoevsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/bad-people-are-to-be-found-everywhere-but-even-among-the-worst-there/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_bad-people_bad-people-are-to-be-found-everywhere-bu_2008808.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_bad-people_bad-people-are-to-be-found-everywhere-bu_2008808.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/fyodor-dostoevsky-342_bad-people_bad-people-are-to-be-found-everywhere-bu_2008808.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And the more I drink the more I feel it. 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