Writer Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“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

“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

“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The morning was so damp and misty”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“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

“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

“- 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

“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

“People who can speak well, speak briefly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky