Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“ليس في الطبيعة ما يضحك رغم كل ما قد يظنه الانسان لامتلاء عقله بأوهام حمقاء! لسوف تجد الحيوانات لدينا من المضحكاتأكثر مما نجد لديها، لأنني مقتنع بأننا نرتكب من الحماقات أكثر مما ترتكب الحيوانات.”

“Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.”

“And, indeed, this is the odd thing that is continually happening: there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to speak, a light to their neighbours simply in order to show them that it is possible to live morally and rationally in this world. And yet we all know that those very people sooner or later have been false to themselves, playing some queer trick, often a most unseemly one. Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being endowed with strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element. It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself--as though that were so necessary-- that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar. And that is not all: even if man really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. And if he does not find means he will contrive destruction and chaos, will contrive sufferings of all sorts, only to gain his point!”

“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”

“There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.”

“ أولى بك أن تسلم المسألة للقدر ، فالزمان كفيل بحل اعقد المشكلات ’’ / ‘‘ إن عاثر الحظ لايخطئه الإخفاق ’’ / ‘‘ يجب أن تنهضِي من فراشكِ في ساعة مبكرة ، وأن تقولي لنفسكِ كلما استيقظتِ : أنا علَى خير ما يرام ، أنا قوية سعيدة ، وسَأخرج مع أبي في جولة بعيدة ’’ / ‘‘ الحب . هراء ! ماهو الحب وأين نجده في هذه الأيام ؟ - الحب ياسيدتي أساس كل زواج ! - كلّا .. فالزواج السعيد هو الذي لم يكن وليد حبٍ عنيف ’’ / ‘‘ افعلْ هذا من أجلي ، لاتلقي على مسامعي مثل هذه الكلمات ، ولنكن صديقين !! - لن نكون صديقين وحسب ، وأنتِ تعرفين ، فإما أن تكون أسعد أهل الأرض ، وإما أن تكون أكثرهم شقاءً ’’ / ‘‘ لاترزح تحت ثقل اليأس ، لاتدع روحك تأن ، فليست هذه الصدمة إلا ثمرة من ثمرات الحب .. ولك الحمد ، فأنا بخير مادام قلبك عامراً بالمجبة والإخلاص ‘‘ / ‘‘ هذا نقصكم جميعاً أيها الرجال ، تركبون الأهوال لتنالوا رغبة النفس الجنسية ، وتبسطون اليد للمال لتدركوا أوطاركم من النساء .. إن المرأه هي حياتكم .. إنها الهواء الذي تستنشقون ، والطعام الذي تأكلون ، والماء الذي تشربون ! هذا ماعاينته فيكم معشر الرجال ، وهذا ماعهدته غيري من بنات حواء ’’ / ‘‘ ما أشقى شقيقتك ياعزيزي ! إن صباحي كَـ ظُهري ومسائي . أما ليلي فهو المصيبة التي لا أخلص منها !.. ............. ثق يا أخي بأنني أكره زوجي من كل قلبي .. أكرهه .. أو تدري السبب ؟ أكرهه لأنه مستقيم ! أكرهه لأنه فاضل ! أكرهه لأنه يرحم ويعفو ! نعم أكرهه لهذه الحسنات وماعدت أطيق النظر إلى محاسنه ‘‘ ولكن .. !! ولكن ماذا بعد ولكن ... لم أسمع برجل في مثل نبله ، لم أسمع برجل يتحمل ماتحمله ، وإني إن قورنت به ، خرجت بصفرٍ كامل ! ومع ذلك فـ مَقتي لشخصه لاحدود له ولاسدود ! ‘‘ / ‘‘ حطمتني الكارثة ياعزيزتي فأمسيت شبح رجل ! إنني الآن أخاف من كل شيء بل من نفسي فما العمل ؟ - سؤال لاجواب له .. استمر ، تكلم ، ففي الكلام تفريج ، وفيه سلوى القانط المكروب - انني لا آسف على شيء فقدته ، لأن مافقدت لا وجود له في رأيي واحساسي ! لا أملك نفسي من الإعتقاد أن الناس لايعتنون اليوم بشيء قدر اعتنائهم بأخباري .! 3> ”

“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”

“For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.”

“أري أنه لا يجوز لرجل أن يتحدث عن امرأة إلي شخص آخر. ذلك رأيي أكرره وأصر عليه. أن من تتخذه نجياً وتفضي إليه بأسرارك لن يفهم أبداً. الملاك نفسه لن يفهم. حين تحترم امرأة فلا تتخذ لك نجياً تبوح له بأمورك. وإذا كنت تحترم نفسك فلا تفعل ذلك أيضاً.”

“Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window”

“I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.”

“And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for no reason that they themselves knew of. The child’s whole body was covered in bruises. Eventually they devised a new refinement. Under the pretext that the child dirtied her bed (as though a five-year-old deep in her angelic sleep could be punished for that), they forced her to eat excrement, smearing it all over her face. And it was the mother that did it! And that woman would lock her daughter up in the outhouse until morning and she did so even on the coldest nights, when it was freezing. Just imagine the woman being able to sleep with the child’s cries coming from that outhouse! Imagine that little creature, unable to even understand what is happening to her, beating her sore little chest with her tiny fist, weeping hot, unresentful, meek tears, and begging ‘gentle Jesus’ to help her… ...let’s assume that you were called upon to build the edifice of human destiny so that men would finally be happy and would find peace and tranquility. If you knew that, only to attain this, you would have to torture just one single creature, let’s say the little girl who beat her chest so desperately in the outhouse, and that on her unavenged tears you could build that edifice, would you agree to do it?”

“You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.”

“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love...Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others.”

“أيها السيد الكريم، ليس الفقر رذيلة، ولا الإدمان على السكر فضيلة، أنا أعرف ذلك أيضًا. ولكن البؤس رذيلة أيها السيد الكريم، البؤس رذيلة. يستطيع المرء في الفقر أن يظل محافظًا على نبل عواطفه الفطرية، أما في البؤس فلا يستطيع ذلك يومًا، وما من أحد يستطيعه قط. إذا كنت في البؤس فإنك لا تُطرد من مجتمع البشر ضربًا بالعصا، بل تُطرد منه ضربًا بالمكنسة، بغية إذلالك مزيدًا من الإذلال. والناس على حق في ذلك، لأنك في البؤس أول من يريد هذا الذل لنفسه بنفسه. وهذا سبب إدمانك على الشرب.”

“Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!”

“Beauty is a riddle”

“My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but only for myself, I knew that before, but only now do I see...Oh, where are those friends whom I have insulted with my friendship all my life? And everyone, everyone! , perhaps I'm lying now; certainly I'm also lying now. The worst of it is that I believe myself when I lie. The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie...and...and not believe one's own lie, yes, yes, that's precisely it!”

“إنهم مجرد كائنات فاسدة ، كائنات متظاهرة بالوجود بينما في الواقع هم غير موجودين.”

“ليس يكفى المرء أن يكون ذكىَّ العقل حتى لا يُخدع، بل لابد له أيضاً من قلب حساس.”