More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
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.
Money is coined liberty.
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.
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 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.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
