More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The soul is healed by being with children.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
