“It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Because I couldn't bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better!… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The torments of a proud decision, a deep conscience! God, in whom he did not believe, and his truth were overcoming his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“They 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
“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this… — 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
“Stepan Trofimovich managed to touch the deepest strings in his friend's heart and to call forth in him the first, still uncertain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I regard you as one of those men who would stand and smile at their torturer while he cuts their entrails out,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, we are all cruel, we are all monsters, we all make people weep, mothers and nursing babies, but of all--let it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — 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
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