Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Quotes
Literature“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“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.”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much naiver and more simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ Each of us is guilty in everything before everyone, and I most of all. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ I say a man falls asleep and does not wake up, and that's all...That is my philosophy. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings of grown-up people, they have eaten the apple, damn them, and the devil take them all! But these little ones! ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ That is a fact and it speaks, it shouts, for itself but when it comes to inner feelings, thats quite a different matter, gentlemen. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory, especially a memory from childhood, from the parental home. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. ”
Fyodor DostoevskyQuotes
Literature“ I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. ”
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