More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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.
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.
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.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
Money is coined liberty.
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.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
