Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky—Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world— woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.”

“and so, if you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you'll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. You must, however, note all the shades of his laugh.”

“ادفع اربعة من فئتك إلى قتل خامسهم بحجة انه يخونهم أو يتجسس عليهم ويشي بهم ، فإن هؤلاء الأربعة ما إن يشتركوا معا في سفك دم حتى يرتبطوا ارتباطا قويا فيصبحوا عبيدا لك لن يجسروا بعد ذلك أن يتمردوا”

“It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept. With one reservation: I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradictions will disappear like a pitiful mirage, a vile concoction of man’s Euclidean mind, feeble and puny as an atom, and that ultimately, at the world’s finale, in the moment of eternal harmony, there will occur and be revealed something so precious that it will suffice for all hearts, to allay all indignation, to redeem all human villainy, all bloodshed; it will suffice not only to make forgiveness possible, but also to justify everything that has happened with men—let this, let all of this come true and be revealed, but I do not accept it and do not want to accept”

“It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.”

“No," he said to himself, "however good that life of simplicity and toil may be, I cannot go back to it. I love HER.”

“Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”

“That only shows you have no heart,” she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him.”

“Yes, would have been,' he said sadly. 'He's precisely one of those people of whom they say that they're not meant for this world.”

“It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.”

“Jealousy according to his notions was an insult to one's wife, and one ought to have confidence in one's wife”

“Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.”

“Compasiunea este principala, poate chiar unica lege a existenţei pentru întreaga umanitate.”

“Had you accepted that third counsel of the mighty spirit, you would have furnished all that man seeks on earth, that is: someone to bow down to, someone to take over his conscience, and a means for uniting everyone at last into a common, concordant, and incontestable anthill - for the need for universal union is the third and last torment of men.”

“We destroy only because we’re spiritually sated. Exactly like children!”

“After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they went, until they were naked, and then continued the frolic far away up the shoal water of the bar, against the stiff current, which latter tripped their legs from under them from time to time and greatly increased the fun. And now and then they stooped in a group and splashed water in each other's faces with their palms, gradually approaching each other, with averted faces to avoid the strangling sprays, and finally gripping and struggling till the best man ducked his neighbor, and then they all went under in a tangle of white legs and arms and came up blowing, sputtering, laughing, and gasping for breath at one and the same time.”

“Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.”

“إننا لطغاة ذوو نزوات .. إننا لا نغفر مجرد تغير يطرأ على الوجه .. ويعلم الله لماذا يكون هذا الوجه قد تغير”

“It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;”

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And”