Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

“Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?”

“It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who “every one” was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was...”

“أرسلك الله لي كي أكفر بك عن ذنوبي الهائلة" من أجمل رسائل ‫#‏دوستويفسكي‬ وأقصرها لزوجته ‫#‏آنا‬ .”

“In any case civilization has made mankind if not more blood-thirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely blood-thirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterminated those he thought proper. Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever. Which is worse? Decide that for yourselves.”

“And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.”

“إنه ليشق على هؤلاء الناس أن يفقدوا بعد ذلك أوهامهم، يشق عليهم ذلك لشعورهم بأنهم أنفسهم مذنبون .. لما تنتظر أن تُعطى أكثر مما يمكن أن تعطي ؟ إن الخيبة تتربص بهؤلاء الناس من لحظة إلى لحظة..والأفضل أن يظلوا في زاويتهم هادئين، لا يخرجون منها ...”

“I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life”

“رأيت وجهاً يظهر بألف مظهر. ووجهاً مظهره واحداً أبداً كأنما قد سبك في قالب. ورأيت وجهاً قدرت أن أقرأ تحت طلاوته الظاهرة بشاعته المستترة، ووجهاً ما رأيت روعة جماله المحتجب حتى رفعت قناعه الظاهر. ورأيت وجهاً شيخاً قد تجعّد ولكن على لاشيء، ووجهاً ناعماً قد ارتسمت على ملامحه جميع الأشياء. أنا أعرف الوجوه لأنني أنظر إليها من خلال ما ينسجه بصري فأرى الحقيقة التي وراءها بباصرتي.”

“إن لم ترمِ حياتنا إلى مستقبل أنبل وأبهى فباطلة هى”

“لو كانتْ ولادتي مرهونةً بإرادتي، لرفضتُ الوجودَ قي ظلِّ ظروفٍ ساخرةٍ إلى هذا الحد”

“And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.”

“Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“It is not time that matters, but you yourself”

“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.”

“Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.”

“إنني لا أرى في أي مكان شيئاً سواك ، و كل ما عداك فهو عندي سواء . لماذ أحبك ؟ و كيف أحبك ؟ لا أدري . قد لا تكونين من الجمال على شيء البتة . هل تتصورين أنني لا أعرف أأنت جميلة أم لا ، حتى من ناحية جمال الوجه ؟ أما قلبك فسيئ ولا شك ، و أما فكرك فمن الجائز جداً أن يكون مجرداً من كل رفعة و نبل .”

“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, gentleman, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!" That again would not matter, but what is annoying is that he would be sure to find followers--such is the nature of man. And”

“But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. I”

“For the direct, lawful, immediate fruit of consciousness is inertia – that is, a conscious sitting with folded arms. I’ve already mentioned this above. I repeat, I emphatically repeat: ingenuous people and active figures are all active simply because they are dull and narrow minded. How to explain it? Here’s how: as a consequence of their narrow-mindedness, they take the most immediate and secondary causes for the primary ones, and thus become convinced more quickly and easily than others that they have found an indisputable basis for their doings, and so they feel at ease; and that, after all, is the main thing. For in order to begin to act, one must first be completely at ease, so that no more doubts remain. Well, and how am I, for example, to set myself at ease? Where are the primary causes on which I can rest, where are my bases? Where am I going to get them? I exercise thinking, and, consequently, for me every primary cause immediately drags with it yet another, still more primary one, and so on ad infinitum. Such is precisely the essence of all consciousness and thought. So,”