Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Bezrazložan i besciljan nemir u sadašnjosti, a u budućnosti tek neprekidne žrtve kojima neće ništa postići - eto što ga čeka na ovome svijetu. I što vrijedi što će mu za osam godina biti tek trideset dvije godine i što će mu iznova započeti život? Čemu da živi? Na što da računa? Čemu da teži? Zar da živi samo zato da opstoji? Pa i prije je bio tisuću puta voljan žrtvovati život za ideju, za nadu, pa čak i za tlapnju. Goli život nikad mu nije bio dovoljan; uvijek je htio nešto više. Možda je samo zbog svojih želja držao tada sebe za čovjeka kome je dopušteno više nego drugima.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
topics: classics
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.