Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Download Open image ““It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another.”” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We learn that there are in creation, Beings - perhaps very numerous - both good and evil.” — Richard Whatley Copy Share Image
“First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.” — Philip José Farmer Copy Share Image
“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.” — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“All I wanted was to be put to death without torment. It was perhaps a weakness, but I believe that the mind of man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
“God created us all with his love, to be equally treated. No human being is superior over another.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“We are all wicked. More than mortal flesh and blood, our very souls harbor evil. It knows no beginning or ending.” — Kerri Maniscalco Copy Share Image
“Each human is created for a purpose in this life. None of these purposes is revenge.” — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.” — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and - and can one really be unhappy? Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy? You know, I don't understand how one can walk by a tree… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept repeating to himself, again and again. 'It's like a dream, I've sometimes dreamed of being in such degrading positions.' It was a misery to him to take off his socks. They were very dirty, and so… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain that? I will tell you: in consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary causes for primary ones, and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do that they have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his novels . . . are what he wanted to have been, and his villains were what he was (or rather, what he found in himself), his cruelty, his attacks of causeless enmity towards those who were… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on a steel ring… . And there's one key there, three times as big as all the others, with deep notches; that can't be the key of the chest of drawers … then there must be some… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply that I don't want to do good, I want to do evil, and it has nothing to do with illness. - Why do evil? - So that everything will be destroyed. Oh, how nice it would… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture. Only a scanty modicum of daylight entered to war with the trembling rays of the ikon lamp. The dying man threw… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
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