Man is tormented by no greater an... - Fyodor dostoyevsky - Quotes.Pub

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

Fyodor dostoyevsky Quotes

You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

Let us first fulfill Christ’s injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.

His wife, however, happened to be the only woman in his life who failed totally to arouse any passion in him whatsoever.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was ’sublime and beautiful,’the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

But all these are golden dreams.

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

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering – that is a fact.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that – Count Leo Tolstoy.

I used to watch the line where earth and sky met, and longed to go and seek there the key of all mysteries, thinking that I might find there a new life, perhaps some great city where life should be grander and richer – and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison.

One can fall in love and still hate.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.

She said nothing, she only looked at me without a word. But it hurts more, it hurts more when they don’t blame!

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.

That’s always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it’s as if I’m holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

And in fact you’re not like everyone else: you weren’t ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

Suffering, too, is a good thing. Suffer!

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

A dead man has no age.

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