More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
The soul is healed by being with children.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
Money is coined liberty.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
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.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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 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.
