Suffering Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The torments of a proud decision, a deep conscience! God, in whom he did not believe, and his truth were overcoming his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“[Men] suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“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

“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

“I regard you as one of those men who would stand and smile at their torturer while he cuts their entrails out,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“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