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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
Topic: Philosophical
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
From White Nights
Topic: Inspirational
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!
From White Nights
Topic: Inspirational
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
From White Nights
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Man 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.
Topic: Life, Philosophical
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The soul is healed by being with children.
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
From Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
[...]it is necessary for a man to know and believe every moment that there is somewhere a perfect and peaceful happiness, for everyone and for everything … The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man’s always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and will die in despair. The immeasurable and infinite is as necessary for man as the small planet he inhabits.
From Demons
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
From Crime and Punishment
Topic: Death
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Quale sarebbe per me il modo migliore di morire?...Sì, insomma, voglio dire il modo...più degno possibile? Su, me lo dica!"
"Passi accanto a noi perdonandoci la nostra felicità!" proferì il principe a voce bassa.
From The Idiot
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?
From Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
From Notes from Underground
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Without God all things are permitted.
Topic: Religion
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The samovar has been on the boil since before eight, but.. gone out... like everything else in the world. Even the sun, it's they say, will go out eventually. However, if necessary, I'll start it going again.
From Demons
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
From Crime and Punishment
Topic: Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
From under her relentless hatred of you, which is sincere and absolute, shines love at every moment and... madness... the most sincere and boundless love, and - madness! Conversely, from under the love she feels for me, also sincerely, there shines hatred at every moment - the greatest hatred! Until now I could never have imagined all these "metamorphoses".
From Demons
Topic: Relationships
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
I swear, I loved you less yesterday. Why, then, are you trying to take everything away from me today? Do you know what it's cost me, this fresh hope? I've paid for it with a life.
From Demons
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
From White Nights
Topic: Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
Topic: Philosophical
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
From White Nights
Topic: Inspirational
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!
From White Nights
Topic: Inspirational
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
From White Nights
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Man 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.
Topic: Life, Philosophical
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The soul is healed by being with children.
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
From Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
[...]it is necessary for a man to know and believe every moment that there is somewhere a perfect and peaceful happiness, for everyone and for everything … The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man’s always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and will die in despair. The immeasurable and infinite is as necessary for man as the small planet he inhabits.
From Demons
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
From Crime and Punishment
Topic: Death
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Quale sarebbe per me il modo migliore di morire?...Sì, insomma, voglio dire il modo...più degno possibile? Su, me lo dica!"
"Passi accanto a noi perdonandoci la nostra felicità!" proferì il principe a voce bassa.
From The Idiot
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?
From Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
From Notes from Underground
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Without God all things are permitted.
Topic: Religion
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The samovar has been on the boil since before eight, but.. gone out... like everything else in the world. Even the sun, it's they say, will go out eventually. However, if necessary, I'll start it going again.
From Demons
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
From Crime and Punishment
Topic: Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
From under her relentless hatred of you, which is sincere and absolute, shines love at every moment and... madness... the most sincere and boundless love, and - madness! Conversely, from under the love she feels for me, also sincerely, there shines hatred at every moment - the greatest hatred! Until now I could never have imagined all these "metamorphoses".
From Demons
Topic: Relationships
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
I swear, I loved you less yesterday. Why, then, are you trying to take everything away from me today? Do you know what it's cost me, this fresh hope? I've paid for it with a life.
From Demons
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
From White Nights
Topic: Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays.
Topic: Philosophical
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
From White Nights
Topic: Inspirational
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!
From White Nights
Topic: Inspirational
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
From White Nights
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Man 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.
Topic: Life, Philosophical
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The soul is healed by being with children.
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
From Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
[...]it is necessary for a man to know and believe every moment that there is somewhere a perfect and peaceful happiness, for everyone and for everything … The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man’s always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and will die in despair. The immeasurable and infinite is as necessary for man as the small planet he inhabits.
From Demons
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
From Crime and Punishment
Topic: Death
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Quale sarebbe per me il modo migliore di morire?...Sì, insomma, voglio dire il modo...più degno possibile? Su, me lo dica!"
"Passi accanto a noi perdonandoci la nostra felicità!" proferì il principe a voce bassa.
From The Idiot
Topic: Happiness
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?
From Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
From Notes from Underground
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Without God all things are permitted.
Topic: Religion
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The samovar has been on the boil since before eight, but.. gone out... like everything else in the world. Even the sun, it's they say, will go out eventually. However, if necessary, I'll start it going again.
From Demons
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
From Crime and Punishment
Topic: Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
From under her relentless hatred of you, which is sincere and absolute, shines love at every moment and... madness... the most sincere and boundless love, and - madness! Conversely, from under the love she feels for me, also sincerely, there shines hatred at every moment - the greatest hatred! Until now I could never have imagined all these "metamorphoses".
From Demons
Topic: Relationships
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
I swear, I loved you less yesterday. Why, then, are you trying to take everything away from me today? Do you know what it's cost me, this fresh hope? I've paid for it with a life.
From Demons
Topic: Hope
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
From White Nights
Topic: Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
NOT YET RATED▼
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
From The Brothers Karamazov
Topic: Love
Fyodor Dostoevsky