More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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.
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.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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.
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 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.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
