Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo live without Hope is to Cease to live.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou can be sincere and still be stupid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWe sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYRight or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYPeople 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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThis is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe 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 DOSTOEVSKY