Thinking Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

To think too much is a disease.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost…

— 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

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky