A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Compel Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Heart Copy Share Image
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Light Copy Share Image
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Desire Copy Share Image
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Consciousness Copy Share Image
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Differences Copy Share Image
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Allure Copy Share Image
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Battlefield 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
“The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I bless the rising sun each day, and, as before, my heart sings to meet it, but now I love even more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Demand Copy Share Image
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest… — 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 Darkness Copy Share Image
“Here there is no doubt that timidity and a total lack of personal initiative have always been regarded among us as the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Creative Copy Share Image
“Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Certainty Copy Share Image
“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Desire Copy Share Image
“The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, and I go on living… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Blue sky Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Naten s'kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Animal Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Stranger Copy Share Image
There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Eternal Copy Share Image
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Despotism 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