Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.

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.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.