Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 25

Quotes about:

Adversity Age Angels Animals Anxiety Art Atheism

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Party, Judging, Suffering

5 Copy quote
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fate, Accepting, Renounce

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.45, Vintage

4 Copy quote
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Firsts, Youth

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.467, Modern Library

4 Copy quote
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Heart, Feelings, Doe

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.211, Google Publishing

4 Copy quote
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ideas, Giving, Soul

4 Copy quote
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Gone, Degradation

4 Copy quote
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Success, Frustration, Firsts

4 Copy quote
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dream, Eye, Heart

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

5 Copy quote
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Imagination, Say Anything, World

5 Copy quote
Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men, Age, Coward

5 Copy quote
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fall, Sadness, Light

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

7 Copy quote
I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mad, Flying, Devil

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

4 Copy quote
If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reality, Christ, Should

4 Copy quote
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Two, Giving, Four

5 Copy quote
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mind, Desire, Faces

4 Copy quote
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Memories, Fall, Feelings

7 Copy quote
Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dream, Real, Men

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.974, First Avenue Editions

9 Copy quote
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I believe you have never written to order, by the yard, and have never experienced that hellish torture.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Believe, Writing, Mean

7 Copy quote
You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

People, Gentleman, Gone

"Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866.

7 Copy quote
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life, Dream, Memories

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.46, 谷月社

5 Copy quote
... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Marriage, Husband, Wife

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.424, 谷月社

6 Copy quote
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Irritation, Torture, Humiliation

4 Copy quote
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gambling, Two, Jingles

7 Copy quote
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life, Order, Alive

6 Copy quote
...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ocean, Men, Thinking

4 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Alexander Pushkin

Mikhail Bulgakov

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Follow

Born: November 11, 1821
Died: February 9, 1881
Occupation: Novelist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics