Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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.”
“he was already to some extent a youth of our times—in other words, naturally honest, insisting on truth, seeking it and believing in it, and, once believing, demanding instant commitment to it with all the strength of his soul and wanting to rush off and perform great deeds, sacrificing all, if necessary even life itself.”
“People may ridicule the vows of obedience, fasting, and prayer, yet these are the only way to attain true freedom. It is by discarding cumbersome and unnecessary demands, by subduing and disciplining selfish and conceited aspirations, by obedience, that the monk, with God’s help, achieves spiritual freedom and thereby finds spiritual happiness.”
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“A nice God you've got, if man created him in his image and likeness.”
“You are not without the capacity of veneration, and faith and hope, and conscience and reason, and every other requisite to a Christian’s character, if you choose to employ them; but all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.”
“He was overwhelmed by the beauty of the world. Beside that nothing seemed to matter.”
“Thus, in spite of his solitude, or because of it, his life was exceedingly full.”
“Эцэс төгсгөлгүй цаг хугацаанд эхэн адаггүй түмэн бодисын дунд хааяа хязгааргүй уудам зайнд хөөс шиг өчүүхэн амьд бие бий болон хэсэг байзнаад хага үсэрнэ. Тэр хөөс чинь би шүү дээ.”
“it is a vicious circle. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights.”
“This prince enjoyed exceptionally good health, even for a prince ; and, owing to his gymnastic exercises and the scrupulous care he took of himself, notwithstanding the excesses to which he let his love for pleasure carry him, he remained as fresh as a great, green, shiny Dutch cucumber.”
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“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all around her.”
“Abstractly, theoretically, she did not merely justify, she positively approved of Anna's conduct. As is indeed not unfrequent with women of unimpeachable virtue, weary of the monotony of respectable existence, at a distance she not only excused illicit love, she positively envied it.”
“ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.”
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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.