Dostoevsky Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky Download Open image ““I must let myself flow in a river of words, or I shall choke”” — Fyodor Dostoevsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dostoevsky White-nights
“The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down.” — Bette Greene Copy Share Image
“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“River doesn’t let me finish my sentence as he gently pushes me back against the rail. His arms are extended on either side of… — kim karr Copy Share Image
“Trying to force these words off my tongue is like trying to push a cat into a bathtub. I might be able to do… — Aaron Hartzler Copy Share Image
“I think the river be showin a person the way his mind's supposed to work... You ain't never see a river stop and think too long about nothin. It don't never twist and squirrel around what lays in its path, exceptin when the thing is too big to go rightly through it. Then it goes around. Gently. But otherwise, it… — Robert Gatewood Copy Share
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.” — Basava 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 love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. Anyone murdered by brigands, whose throat is cut at night in a wood, or something of that sort, must surely hope to escape till the very last minute. There have been instances when a man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The novelist also… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell, often within a couple paragraphs, that something is by Dickens, or Chekhov, or Woolf, or Salinger, or Coetzee, or Ozick. The quality’s almost impossible to describe or account for straight out — it mostly presents as… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
“Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true of whether… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the latter becoming allegorical. He possessed what I call an eschatological imagination, one that could envision putting ideas into action and then following them out to their ultimate consequences. At the same time, his characters respond to such consequences… — Joseph Frank Copy Share
“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthful?... A man's mirth is a feature that gives away the whole man, from head to foot. Someone's character won't be cracked for a long time then the man bursts out laughing somehow quite sincerely, and his whole… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
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