Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.”
“There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you”
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“Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.”
“...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.”
“Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from The Idiot
“يا لظلمك أيتها القلوب العزيزة !”
“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.”
“how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.”
“if Stavrogin believes, he does not believe that he believes. And if he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Demons
“So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?' 'He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but there's pain in the fear of a stone.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Demons
topics: absurdism
“ما أكثر الشرور التى يمكن أن نتفاداها بالصراحة.”
“She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.”
“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.”
topics: inspirational-life
“فإنما الشيء الأساسي أن لا تكذب على نفسك . إن من يكذب على نفسه , ويرضى أن تنطلى عليه أكاذيبه , يصل من ذلك إلى أن يصبح عاجزا عن رؤية الحقيقة في أي موضع , فلا يعود يراها لا في نفسه ولا فيما حوله , وهو ينتهي أخيراً, لهذا السبب , إلى فقد احترامه لنفسه واحترامه لغيره .”
topics: كذب
“I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand”
“No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit”
“ I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. "What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said, "I can’t help it.”
“Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
“I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
topics: alcohol
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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.