Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“لقد تعلموا الكذب و أحبوه و عرفوا مواطن الجمال فيه ،ربما بدأ الأمر بريئاً على سبيل المزاح أو الغنج و الدعابة و اللعب . و حقيقة الأمر أن االبداية كانت ذرة ، و أن ذرة الكذب تلك تسربت الى قلوبهم و أعجبتهم !”
“إن الفقر ليس خطيئة, وإنما الخطيئة أن يكون المرء غنيا فيُهين الآخرين”
“Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
“She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self”
“These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy.”
“A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.”
“A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.”
“They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”
“Woe to the man who offends a small child!”
“I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.”
“Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.”
“Life is given to me only once, and never will be again—I don't want to sit waiting for universal happiness. I want to live myself; otherwise it's better not to live at all.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
topics: life
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
“...Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in vices reaches complete bestiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others and to himself.”
“العزلة التي يعيش فيها البشر, و تتجلى في جميع الميادين و لا سيما في عصرنا هذا. ان عصر العزلة هذا لم ينته , حتى انه لم يصل الى ذروته. ان كل انسان في هذا العصر يجهد في سبيل ان يتذوق الحياة كاملة مبتعدا عن اقرانه , ساعيا الى السعادة الفردية. و لكن هيهات ان تودي هذة الجهود الى تذوق الحياة كاملة, فهي لا تقود الا الى فناء النفس فناء كاملا, و لا تقود الا الى نوع من الانتحار الروحي بعزلة خانقة. لقد انحل المجتمع في عصرنا الى افراد يعيش كل منهم في جحره كوحش, و يهرب بعضهم من بعض, و لا يفكرون الا في ان يخفوا ثرواتهم عن بعض. و هم يصلون من ذلك الى ان يكرة بعضهم بعضا و الى ان يصبحوا جديرين بالكره هم ايضا. ان الانسان يكدس الخيرات فوق الخيرات في العزلة و تسره القوة التي يحسب انه يملكها بذلك, قائلا لنفسة ان ايامه قد اصبحت بذلك مؤمنة مضمونه , انه لا يرى لحماقته, انه كلما اوغل في التكديس كان يغوص في عجز قاتل. ذلك انه يتعود انه لا يعتمد الا على نفسه, و يفقد ايمانه بالتعاون, و ينسى في عزلته القوانين التي تحكم الانسانية حقا , و ينتهي الى ان يرتعد كل يوم خوفا على ماله الذي اصبح حرمانه يحرمه من كل شئ. لقد غاب عن البشر تماما ان الامن الحقيقي لا يتحقق في الحياة بالعزلة و انا باتحاد الجهود و تناسق الاعمال الفردية.”
“The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.”
“but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.”
“She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would be better.”
Group of Brands
© 2026 Bibleportal.com All rights reserved.
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.