Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“إن الإيمان بالله هو الذي يمكن أن يعد شيئا رجعيا في زماننا هذا، أما أنا الشيطان، فإنه مباح تماما أن أُصَدَّق”
“Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.”
“The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people.”
“He did not know that Levin was feeling as though he had grown wings. Levin knew she was listening to his words and that she was glad to listen to him. And this was the only thing that interested him.”
“I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.”
“Your tears mean nothing! You have never loved me; you have neither heart nor honorable feeling! You are hateful to me, disgusting, a stranger—yes, a complete stranger!" With pain and wrath she uttered the word so terrible to herself—stranger.”
“Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be.”
“إنني أشعر كلما دخلت على بعض الناس أنني أسوأ من الآخرين، وأن الجميع يعدونني مهرجا! فأقول لنفسي عندئذ، فليكن! سأقوم بدور المهرج، لأنكم جميعا أكثر مني غباوة، وأخبث سريرة”
“Freedom! What is freedom for? Happiness is only in loving and wishing her wishes, thinking her thoughts, that is to say, not freedom at all — that’s happiness!” “But do I know her ideas, her wishes, her feelings?” some voice suddenly whispered to him. The smile died away from his face, and he grew thoughtful. And suddenly a strange feeling came upon him. There came over him a dread and doubt — doubt of everything.”
“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was”
“And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.”
“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.”
“The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote”
“those moments when once and for all a man shows his worth and that his whole past has not been in vain but has been a preparation for those moments.”
“But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”
“Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.”
“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.”
“Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a great influence on her, it also comforted her in her mental distress. She found this comfort through a completely new world being opened to her by means of this acquaintance, a world having nothing in common with her past, an exalted, noble world, from the height of which she could contemplate her past calmly. It was revealed to her that besides the instinctive life to which Kitty had given herself up hitherto there was a spiritual life. This life was disclosed in religion, but a religion having nothing in common with that one which Kitty had known from childhood, and which found expression in litanies and all-night services at the Widow's Home, where one might meet one's friends, and in learning by heart Slavonic texts with the priest. This was a lofty, mysterious religion connected with a whole series of noble thoughts and feelings, which one could do more than merely believe because one was told to, which one could love.”
“Sight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to it by the English.”
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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.