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More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
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 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.
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.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
