When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image