More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
The soul is healed by being with children.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
Money is coined liberty.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
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.
