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
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — 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
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? — 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
