Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
topics: perfection
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
topics: romantic
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from White Nights
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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.