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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

Total quotes: 32
“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Tagged: Silence, Fear, Holding Back
“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Tagged: Deep, Worrying
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Old Man and the Sea
Tagged: Poetic, Sad
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Tagged: human actions, humanity, Complexity, Human Behavior
“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Tagged: Hatred, Passion, Love
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Tagged: Existence, Imagination, Adventures
“Silence is always beautiful, and a silent person is always more beautiful than one who talks.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent(Vintage Classics)
Tagged: Peaceful, Silence, Introvert
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: Life, Inspirational, Burn out, What To Say To Someone That Is Tired
“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 Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Sadness
“Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: Happiness, Advice, Pain, Work, Aphorisms
“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
Tagged: Challenge, contempt, life's critics, Life, social utopianism, Society
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tagged: Relationships, Friendship, Meeting People, Connections
“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Tagged: Adventure, Surprises, Taking Risks
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tagged: Betrayal, self
“I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: World, World Order, societal standards, Society, Rules, rules in living, Living, Life, struggles in living
“I create entire romances in my dreams.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights And Other Stories
Tagged: romance, Unrequited Love, Desire
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights and Other Stories: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X
Tagged: Deep Thoughts, Positivity
“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.’”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons: The Possessed, The Devils
Tagged: Overcoming Grief, Courage, Bravery
“Something had caught fire within me, a purpose had revealed itself.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From The Underground
Tagged: purpose, realizations, Courage
“I want to get to know you once for all, and I want you to know me. And then say good-bye. I believe it's always best to get to know people just before leaving them. I've noticed how you've been looking at me. There has been a continual look of expectation in your eyes, and I can't endure that. That's how it is I've kept away from you. But in the end I've learned to respect you. You do stand firm, don't you? I like people who are firm like that whatever it is they stand by. Your expectant eyes ceased to annoy me, I grew fond of them in the end, those expectant eyes. I understand something in you and you seem to love me for some reason.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: preferences, Love, Relationships, Leaving Someone
“Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruelest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
Tagged: Prison, Prison Life
“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Tagged: prayer, Education, Meaning
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Intelligence
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: Hell, Love, Relationships, Loving, Unable To Love
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass 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...”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: Lies, lying, lying to yourself, lying to oneself, accepting the truth, accents, Self-Acceptance, self awareness, Self-Trust, truthful to yourself, truthfulness, Self-Respect, Self-Deception
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tagged: risking, Taking Risks, Fear of Change, Change, Experience, Living, Life
“Yet in their absence I seemed to love them so much.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tagged: Love, Loving, Loving Someone, Absence, absence of a person, Missing Someone
“I am too young and I've loved you too much.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
Tagged: puppy love
“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature... Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.”
— Ivan Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: Creation
“Beauty! I can't bear the thought that man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What's still more awful is that man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna, and his heart may be on fire with the ideal, genuinely on fire, just as in his days of youth and innocence.”
— Dmitri Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov
Tagged: Theory and Practice
“Yet, I didn’t understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From The Underground
Tagged: Feelings, Sarcasm, Express, Pride, Soul, heart
“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years; there’s something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Tagged: Thoughts, Ideas, Communication
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