Charm Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

— Roy Hodgson

“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and…

— Ernest Hemingway

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

— Norman MacCaig

“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on. But damned…

— Lindqvist John Ajvide

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak…

— Vincent Kartheiser

It's more interesting when people overcome inner turbulence, but at the same time I do like the innocent. Have you ever read The Idiot?…

— Josh Hartnett

“In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am…

— Thomas B. Sawyer

So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— Lev Shestov

“Whether I am believed or not, I will repeat that Vladimir Soloviov, who held that Dostoevsky was a prophet, is wrong, and that N.…

— Lev Shestov

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

— Svetlana Alexievich