Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“My young brother asked forgiveness of the birds: it seems senseless, yet it is right, for all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. Let it be madness to ask forgiveness of the birds, still it would be easier for the birds, and for a child, and for any animal near you, if you yourself were more gracious than you are now, if only by a drop, still it would be easier. All is like an ocean, I say to you. Tormented by universal love, you, too, would then start praying to the birds, as if in a sort of ecstasy, and entreat them to forgive you your sin. Cherish this ecstasy, however senseless it may seem to people.”
“Perhaps God was moved by the tears of someone praying for me, perhaps the entreaties of my late mother, perhaps a heavenly spirit who came to my rescue—I don’t know, but the devil was defeated.”
topics: spirituality
“The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced of the existence”
“Ellos también sufren, y mucho, sin duda para expiar la falta de sus padres, que han comido el fruto prohibido... Pero estos razonamientos son de otro mundo que el corazón humano no puede comprender desde aquí abajo. Un ser inocente no es capaz de sufrir por otro, y menos una tierna criatura.”
“fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood.”
“لأنّ الإنسان الشاذ ، ليس حتما-ليس دائما- ذلك الذي يسلك سبيل الخصوص والتفرّد ، حتى لقد يتّفق ، خلافاً لهذا ، أن يحمل في ذاته حقيقة عصره ، بينما يكون الناس ، جميع الناس ، من معاصريه ، قد ابتعدوا عن هذه الحقيقة إلى حين ، كأنما دفعتهم عنها ريحٌ هبّت على حين فجأة...”
topics: loneliness
“the Lord God has given us so little time, only twenty-four hours in the day, so that one hasn’t even time to get sleep enough, much less to repent of one’s sins.”
“When it comes to poetry, it’s a lot of rubbish. Just think about it: who in the world speaks in rhyme?”
“Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all.”
“He was not even particularly struck by the Pole’s absurd wig made in Siberia, with love-locks foolishly combed forward over the temples.”
“Of course, in the monastery he believed absolutely in miracles, but in my opinion miracles never bother a realist. It is not miracles that incline a realist towards faith. A true realist, if he is a non-believer, will always find within himself the strength and the ability not to believe in miracles, and if he is faced with a miracle as an incontrovertible fact he will sooner disbelieve his own senses than accept the fact.”
“-¡Oh! Dios mío, sí -dijo Montecristo-, no hago secreto de ello, es una mezcla de un excelente opio que he ido a buscar yo mismo a Cantón, para estar seguro de obtenerlo puro, y del mejor hachís que se cosecha en Oriente, es decir, entre el Tigris y el Eufrates. Se reúnen estos dos ingredientes en proporciones iguales y se hace una especie de píldoras, que se tragan cuando hay necesidad.”
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. ‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”
“A schoolfellow of Vronsky’s and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked.”
“En la infinitud del tiempo, en la infinitud de la materia y en la infinitud del espacio surge la burbuja de un organismo, que dura un instante y después estalla. Esa burbuja soy yo.”
“Above all, I wouldn’t want to prove anything, I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right haven’t I? - Anna Karenina, p.616”
“Soon after the doctor, Dolly had arrived. She knew that there was to be a consultation that day, and though she was only just up after her confinement (she had another baby, a little girl, born at the end of the winter), though she had trouble and anxiety enough of her own, she had left her tiny baby and a sick child, to come and hear Kitty's fate, which was to be decided that day.”
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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.