Dostoevsky Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. — Albert Einstein
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. — Georg Brandes
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. — D. H. Lawrence
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham… — David Foster Wallace
Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be… — Saul Alinsky
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its… — Lev Shestov
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… — Arthur Koestler
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was… — Akira Kurosawa
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever… — David Foster Wallace
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My… — Richard Lewis
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky. — Michel Houellebecq
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and… — Vincent Kartheiser
You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake… — Oscar Wilde
In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe… — John Gardner
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the… — Flannery O'Connor

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25 authors contributed a total of 28 Dostoevsky Quotes as follows: