Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from White Nights
“I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?”
“Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.”
“إن فى أصحاب النفوس الحساسة، المرهفة، الرقيقة، نوعاً من العناد فى بعض الأحيان، فترى أحدهم يأبى أن يعبّر للشخص الذى يحبه عن حبه، لا بين الناس فحسب، بل وفى الخلوة أكثر مما بين الناس، ويندر أن تفلت منه ملاطفة، ولكنها إن أفلتت كانت عنيفة قوية عارمة، على قدر انحباسها مدة طويلة من الزمان.”
“But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.”
“أنا أعرف الوجوه،لأنني انظر إليها من خلال ماينسجهُ بصري فأرى الحقيقة التي وراءها بباصرتي”
“Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”
“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck." "Tom, I am not everybody.”
“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake That will be punishment as well as the prison.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.”
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“How good life is when one does something good and just!”
“If he's alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn't understand that”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from The Idiot
“أحيانا يختفي المرء عن كافة الأنظار لأنه يخاف من القيل و القال ،إنهم يجعلون منه موضوعا لسخريتهم و تندرهم .”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Poor Folk
“كل شيء في الانسان عادة. إن العادة هي المحرك الكبير للحياة الانسانية.”
“These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.”
“She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“أفكر في كل شيء و في لا شيء”
“The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from The Eternal Husband
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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.