More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
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.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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.
