Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Ili mu se od samoće razvila ta krajnja osjetljivost, ogoljelost i nezaštićenost osjećaja; ili se u zamornoj, zagušljivoj, beskrajnoj gluhoći dugih, besanih noći, među nesvjesnim težnjama i nestrpljivim potresima duha pripravlja ta prenapetost srca, spremna, najzad, da prsne ili da nađe kuda će se izliti; ili je, naprosto, nastalo iznenada vrijeme tomu svečanomu času, i to mu je lako moralo da bude, kao što iznenada za zaparna, zagušljiva dana pocrni odjednom cijelo nebo, bura se daždem i ognjem izlijeva na izgladnjelu zemlju, daždevim se biserjem vješa o smaragdove grane, gazi travu, polja, sabija u zemlju nježne cvjetne čaške, da onda, od prvih sunčanih zraka, opet sve oživi, uperi se i digne se u susret suncu, te mu svečano, do neba, pošalje svoj raskošni, slatki tamjan, veseleći se i radujući se svome obnovljenomu životu ...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Бедные люди
topics: existential-philosophy
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.