Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Earth Copy Share Image
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Moon Copy Share Image
The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Feminism Copy Share Image
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abstract Copy Share Image
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Action Copy Share Image
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ants 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
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Comedy Copy Share Image
“for the idea was by no means so stupid as it seems now that it has failed… (Everything seems stupid when it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Grandmother was always regretting the old days-she was younger in old days,and the sun was warmer in old days,and cream did not… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Grandmother Copy Share Image
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Change Copy Share Image
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Being thankful Copy Share Image
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Humor Copy Share Image
They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and punishment Copy Share Image
The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Astronomy Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Animal Copy Share Image
“I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Government service Copy Share Image
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Advantage Copy Share Image
“No, not 'Very well, Your Excellency', but simply 'Your Excellency'! I told you to watch your tone, Colonel! I also trust you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Business 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 Autumn Copy Share Image
“Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Hell Copy Share Image
It is better to go wrong in one's own way than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Achievement Copy Share Image
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Death Copy Share Image
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
