Death Quote by John Ortberg Jr

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

— Lev Shestov

“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

Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before…

— Thomas Cahill

“I, Nikolai Ivanov, renounce my father, an ex-priest, because for many years he deceived the people by telling them that God exists, and that…

— Orlando Figes

“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

“…of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in…

— David Bentley Hart

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.”

— Henry Miller

“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the…

— Lev Shestov

Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without…

— David Foster Wallace

A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

— Yip Harburg