More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
