Concentration camp Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“Dostoevsky said once, "There is only one thing I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." These words frequently came to my mind…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

“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

“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

— Georg Brandes

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

— Henry Miller

“[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

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

— Lev Shestov

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

— 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

“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one…

— Eric Bogosian