Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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.”
“I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one's heart prizes them.”
“These spoilt fine ladies, if they set their hearts on anything, will spare no expense to satisfy their caprice.”
“In brief there was every appearance of gentility on straitened means.”
“Entonces comprendió Levin por primera vez lo que no había comprendido cuando salió con ella de la iglesia después de la boda; a saber, que esa mujer estaba tan cerca de él que ya no sabía donde acababa ella y dónde empezaba él.”
“With one burning hand she held his and with the other she kept pushing him away.”
“It seemed to her that certain places on the earth must yield happiness, like a plant peculiar to that soil and growing poorly anywhere else.”
topics: happiness
“Позор и срам! Одного боишься — это встречаться с русскими за границей.”
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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.