Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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...”

“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.”

“and it would have been an excellent thing if we’d have been conquered by the French; an intelligent nation would have overpowered a thoroughly stupid one and annexed it. Everything would have been different.”

“-Pero -dijo Beauchamp, quien en su calidad de periodista era muy incrédulo-, ¿lleváis esas drogas con vos? -Constantemente -respondió Montecristo. -¿Sería indiscreción el pediros ver esas preciosas píldoras? -exclamó Beauchamp, creyendo poner al conde en un aprieto. -No, señor -respondió el conde, y sacó de su bolsillo una maravillosa cajita incrustada en una sola esmeralda, y cerrada por una rosca de oro, que desatornillándose, daba paso a una bolita de color verdoso y del tamaño de un guisante.”

“refreshment.”

“My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really felt very badly. Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?”

“Reasoning had brought him to doubt, and prevented him from seeing what he ought to do and what he ought not. When he did not think, but simply lived, he was continually aware of the presence of an infallible judge in his soul, determining which of two possible courses of action was the better and which was the worse, and as soon as he did not act rightly, he was at once aware of it.”

“As there are as many minds as there are heads, so there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts (p. 163).”

“Después me fui al lado de mi madre, y pasando mis brazos alrededor de su talle, como me había gustado siempre tanto hacer, apoyé mi mejilla en su hombro, y una vez mas sus hermosos cabellos cayeron sobre mí, «como las alas de un ángel»; me gusta pensar cuando me acuerdo de ello. ¡Qué feliz era!”

“the most experienced and skilful painter-technician would be unable, for all his mechanical ability, to paint anything unless the boundaries of the content were first revealed to him.”

“Yapılması gereken tek şey, hedefe doğru inatla yürümek, o zaman hedefime ulaşırım.”

“Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties and words, the disputants finally arrived at being aware that what they had so long been struggling to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they liked different things, and would not define what they liked for fear of its being attacked. He had often had the experience of suddenly in a discussion grasping what it was his opponent liked and at once liking it too, and immediately he found himself agreeing, and then all arguments fell away as useless. Sometimes, too, he had experienced the opposite, expressing at last what he liked himself, which he was devising arguments to defend, and, chancing to express it well and genuinely, he had found his opponent at once agreeing and ceasing to dispute his position.”

“Léon was het uitzichtloos verliefd zijn meer dan beu; daarbij meldde zich de neerslachtigheid die wordt veroorzaakt door de sleur van een eentonig bestaan dat geen doel of leidraad heeft, dat niet wordt gedragen door enige hoop.”