Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI 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.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
-
-
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
We 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 DOSTOEVSKY -
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The soul is healed by being with children.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY