Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime.”

“He is guilty, but he will be acquitted, from motives of humanity, in accordance with the new ideas, the new sentiments that had come into fashion,”

“Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.”

“That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean this faculty of seeing our own shortcomings. But we overdo it. We comfort ourselves with ironic remarks which are always on the tip of the tongue.”

“She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy, she was on the lookout for it.”

“If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.”

“He saw nothing but death or the advance towards death in everything.”

“And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.”

“He looked at her, and the fury expressed in her face alarmed and amazed him. He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her. She saw in him sympathy for her, but not love.”

“…Ëndërrimtari, po t’i bëjmë një përkufizim të hollësishëm, nuk është njeri, por, si me thënë, një krijesë e gjinisë së mesme. Gjallon të shumtën e kohës në ndonjë kënd të humbur, a thua se i fshihet edhe dritës së diellit dhe, me t’u mbyllur në shtëpinë e tij ngjitet pas saj si kërmilli pas guackës, ose së paku i ngjan shumë, në këtë drejtim, asaj kafshës interesante që është kafshë dhe shtëpi njëherësh dhe që quhet breshkë…”

“If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral.”

“No he conseguido nada, ni ser malvado ni ser de otro modo; no he conseguido ser ni perverso ni bondadoso; ni canalla ni honrado; ni un héroe..., y ni siquiera un mísero insecto.”

“No, I'd better sit on to the end,' I went on thinking; 'you would be pleased, my friends, if I went away. Nothing will induce me to go. I'll go on sitting here and drinking to the end, on purpose, as a sign that I don't think you of the slightest consequence.”

“What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould cast of the world and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for everything for all the ages. And what mysteries are solved and revealed”

“Once I am rich, I shall be a genius, an extremely original man. One of the vilest and most hateful things connected with money is that it can buy even talent; and will do so as long as the world lasts.”

“Moje słowa nie odpowiadają moim myślom, a to poniża moje myśli.”

“And what aim in life is more important or sacred than a parental aim?”

“Kako možete znati što će značiti taj dodir jedne osobe s drugom u sudbini dodirnute osobe? Jer, tu je cijeli život i nebrojeno mnoštvo njegovih ogranaka skrivenih od naših pogleda.”

“You have only to creep into a secluded corner or into a crocodile, to shut your eyes, and you immediately devise a perfect millennium for mankind.”

“البشر يصبحون مجانين مسعورين، ولكنهم يعدون أنفسهم على ذكاء عظيم لم يزعمه البشر لأنفسهم في يوم من الأيام قط ؛ فهم يعتقدون بأنهم معصومين من الزلل مبرّؤون من الخطأ، في أحكامهم، في نتائجهم العلمية، في مبادئهم الأخلاقية والدينية. إن قرى ومدنًا وأممًا بكاملها قد سرت إليها هذه العدوى، وفقدت عقلها. أصبح أفرادها يعيشون في حالة جنون، لا يفهم بعضهم عن بعض شيئًا، لا يفهم أحد منهم عن أحد شيئًا ؛ كل واحد يؤمن بأنه الإنسان الوحيد الذي يمتلك الحقيقة، فإذا نظر إلى الآخرين تألم وبكى ولطم صدره وعقف يديه لوعة وحسرة. أصبح الناس لا يستطيعون أن يتفاهموا على ما ينبغي أن يكون شرًا وما ينبغي أن يكون خيرًا. أصبحوا لا يستطيعون لا أن يدينوا ولا أن يبرؤوا. أصبح البشر يقتل بعضهم بعضًا تحت سيطرة بغض لا معنى له وكره لا يُفهم. هم يجتمعون ليؤلفوا جيوشًا كبيرة، فما أن يدخلوا معركة حتى يندلع الشقاق في جميع الصفوف فتنحل الجيوش، ويأخذ الجنود يهجم بعضهم على بعض، فيَعُض بعضهم بعضًا، ويذبح بعضهم بعضًا، ويلتهم بعضهم بعضًا. في المدن يدق ناقوس الخطر طوال النهار، ويُستنفر الشعب. ولكن ما الذي يستنفره ؟ ولماذا يستنفره ؟ ذلك أمر لا يعرف أحد عنه شيئًا. الرعب يستبد بجميع الخلق. المهن العادية هجرها أصحابها، لأن كل واحد يعرض آراءه وإصلاحاته، وما من أحد يستطيع أن يتفق مع أحد. الزراعة أُهملت إهمالًا تامًا. هنا وهناك يجتمع أناس فيشكلون جماعات ويتهافتون على القيام بعمل مشترك، متعاهدين بأغلظ الأيمان على ألا يفترقوا قط، ولكنهم ما يلبثون أن يشرعوا في شيء لا يمت بأي صلة إلى ما عقدوا النية على القيام به، ثم ما يلبثون أن يأخذوا في التراشق بالتهم، ثم مايلبثون أن يقتتلوا فيذبح بعضهم بعضًا. وتشتعل الحرائق، وتظهم المجاعة. كل شيء يصيبه الدمار، وجميع الناس يهلكون شيئًا فشيئًآ.”