Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky is a Russian novelist. Dostoyevsky, who was born in Moscow, Russia, is known as the author of many famous works. Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821.
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Dostoyevsky Quotes
‘”If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man … just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he is a good man.”‘
‘”It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fools paradise.”‘,
‘”The soul is healed by being with children.”‘
‘”Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”‘
‘”If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.”‘
‘”The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”‘
‘”The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.”‘
‘”The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”‘
‘”But how could you live and have no story to tell?”‘ – Dostoyevsky Quotes
‘”A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying – lying to others and to yourself.”‘
‘”There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”‘
‘”The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he is in prison.”‘
‘”Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.”‘ – Dostoyevsky Quotes
‘”Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”‘
‘”If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.”‘
‘”A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”‘
‘”It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”‘
‘”Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”‘
‘”The most offensive is not their lying – one can always forgive lying – lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth – what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.”‘
‘”Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate … the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.”‘
‘”It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”‘ -Dostoyevsky Quotes
‘”Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.”‘
‘”Only through suffering can we find ourselves.”‘
‘”Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”‘
‘”Everything passes, only truth remains.”‘
‘”Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”‘
‘”What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”‘
‘”Life is what matters, life alone – the continuous, eternal process of discovering life – and not the discovery itself.”‘
‘”I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”‘
‘”Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”‘
‘”Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.”‘
‘”In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.”‘
‘”If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”‘
‘”Right attitudes produces right action”‘
‘”I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”‘ – Dostoyevsky Quotes
‘”What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”‘
‘”If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”‘
‘”She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.”‘
‘”The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”‘
‘”I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.”‘
‘”Wealth is the number of things one can do without.”‘
‘”Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”‘
‘”You can be sincere and still be stupid.”‘
‘To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.’
‘”He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.”‘
‘You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.’
‘”The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”‘
‘”A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”‘
‘”Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.”‘
‘”Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!”‘
‘”The more you succeed in loving, the more you will be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.”‘
‘”Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”‘
‘”To think too much is a disease.”‘
‘”Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”‘
‘”There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.”‘
‘”To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”‘
‘”Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”‘
‘”Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.”‘
‘”Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”‘
‘”Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.”‘
‘”Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.”‘
‘”At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.”‘
‘”You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.”‘
‘”The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.”‘
‘”To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.”‘
‘”Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I have never been able to start or finish anything.””‘
‘”People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”‘
‘”They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?”‘
‘”If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”‘
‘”People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.”‘
‘”The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence”‘
‘”Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”‘,
‘”For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.”‘
‘”The world will be saved by beauty.”‘
‘”Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”‘
‘”To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”‘
‘”The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.”‘
‘”Hell is the inability to love.”‘
‘”My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.”‘
‘”If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”‘
‘”To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.”‘
‘”The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”‘
‘”There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”‘
‘”A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.”‘
‘”Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!”‘
‘”A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.”‘
‘”If there is no God, then I am God.”‘
‘”Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.”‘
‘”I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.”‘
‘”My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.”‘
‘”I utter what you would not dare think”‘
‘”But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”‘
‘”Let us be servants in order to be leaders.”‘
‘”Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”‘
‘”When reason fails, the devil helps!”‘
‘”Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.”‘
‘”Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!”‘
‘”Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”‘
‘”Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”‘
‘”To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”‘
‘”Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you are in love with”‘
‘”Life is in ourselves and not in the external.”‘
‘”For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”‘
‘”When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.”‘
‘”Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up”‘
‘”Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”‘
‘”They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”‘
‘”Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.”‘
‘”Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.”‘
‘”Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.”‘
‘”Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
‘”One must love life before loving its meaning … yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.”‘
‘”Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”‘
‘”Everything seems stupid when it fails.”‘
‘”Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”‘
‘”I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!”‘
‘”Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”‘
‘”There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.”‘
‘”Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.”‘
‘”There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”‘
‘”Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.”‘
‘”Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!”‘
‘”A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”‘
‘”It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”‘
‘”Man is bound to lie about himself”‘
‘”Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.”‘
‘”Realists do not fear the results of their study.”‘
‘”Much unhappiness has come into the world because of ewilderment and things left unsaid.”‘
‘”The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.”‘
‘”Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.”‘
‘”Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.”‘
‘”With love one can live even without happiness.”‘
‘”I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”‘
‘”The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”‘
‘”They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.”‘
‘”Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”‘
‘”Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then… Well, then I woke up.”‘
‘”It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave”‘
‘”I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.”‘
‘”One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.”‘
‘”The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners”‘
‘”People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”‘
‘”There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”‘
‘”There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.”‘
‘”Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.”‘
‘”Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”‘
‘”Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.”‘
‘”Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window”‘
‘”Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.”‘
‘”There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.”‘
‘”So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.”‘
‘”The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.”‘
‘”The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.”‘
‘”There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.”‘
‘”And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.”‘
‘”Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!”‘
‘”I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”‘
‘”Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”‘
‘”The consciousness of life is higher than life.”‘
‘”Money is coined liberty.”‘
‘”There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.”‘
‘”Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.”‘
‘”A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”‘
‘”How good life is when one does something good and just!”‘
‘”Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.”‘
‘”After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.”‘
‘”Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”‘
‘”Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.”‘
‘”The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”‘
