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.
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.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.
