Time Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There shall be time no more.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moment of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Every decent man of our time is and is bound to be a coward and a slave. This is his normal condition.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of…

— 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

“Young man, do not forget to pray. Each time you pray, if you do so sincerely, there will be the flash of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be…

— 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

I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“he was partly a young man of our time - that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“While there is still time, I hasten to protect myself, and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the…

— 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

“I've been living like this for a long time - about twenty years. I'm forty now. I used to be in the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky