More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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.
Money is coined liberty.
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.
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.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
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.
The soul is healed by being with children.
