Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame someone else, and especially the person nearest of all to him,”
“But 'time is money,' don't forget that," said the Colonel. "It all depends on what time! There are times when one would give a whole month for a shilling and there are times when you would not give half an hour at any price.”
“Constantine Levin did not like talking or hearing about the beauty of nature. Words seemed to detract from the beauty of what he was looking at.”
topics: nature
“as is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife's words.”
“when things are made awkward by people’s excessive compliance and submission, they are soon made unbearable by their excessive demandingness and fault-finding.”
“ca şi cum preaplinul sufletului nu s-ar revărsa câteodată prin metaforele cele mai găunoase, fiindcă nimeni, niciodată, nu poate da măsură exactă a nevoilor, nici a concepţiilor, nici a durerilor sale, iar cuvântul omenesc este ca un ceaun dogit în care batem ritmuri de ursari, când de fapt am râvni să înduioşăm stelele.”
“Ah ! il était parti, le seul charme de sa vie, le seul espoir possible d’une félicité ! Comment n’avait-elle pas saisi ce bonheur-là, quand il se présentait ! Pourquoi ne l’avoir pas retenu à deux mains, à deux genoux, quand il voulait s’enfuir ? Et elle se maudit de n’avoir pas aimé Léon”
“There was no fire in the fireplace, the clock was still ticking, and Emma felt vaguely amazed that all those things should be so calm when there was such turmoil inside her.”
“La selección sexual es, por lo tanto, menos rigurosa que la selección natural. Generalmente, los machos más vigorosos, los que están mejor adecuados a su situación en la naturaleza, dejarán más descendencia; pero en muchos casos la victoria depende no tanto del vigor natural como de la posesión de armas especiales limitadas al sexo masculino. Un ciervo sin cuernos, un gallo sin espolones, habrían de tener pocas probabilidades de dejar numerosa descendencia. La selección sexual, dejando siempre criar al vencedor, pudo, seguramente, dar valor indomable, longitud a los espolones, fuerza al ala para empujar la pata armada de espolón, casi del mismo modo que lo hace el brutal gallero mediante la cuidadosa selección de sus mejores gallos.”
“¿Recuerda usted algún gran error que cometiera en sus primeros tiempos, duquesa? –preguntó mirándola desde el otro lado de la mesa. –Muchos, por desgracia –exclamó ella. –Pues vuelva a cometerlos –dijo él con gravedad–. Para recuperar la juventud, basta con repetir las mismas locuras.”
“El elefante es considerado como el animal que se reproduce más despacio de todos los conocidos, y me he tomado el trabajo de calcular la progresión mínima probable de su aumento natural; será lo más seguro admitir que empieza a criar a los treinta años, y que continúa criando hasta los noventa, produciendo en este intervalo seis hijos, y que sobrevive hasta los cien años; y siendo así, después de un período de 740 a 750 años habría aproximadamente diez y nueve millones de elefantes vivos descendientes de la primera pareja.”
“At one point, in the east, the mists grew lighter and were clad in gold, like warriors. Then the mists swayed, and the golden warriors bent low. From behind them the sun rose, settled upon the gilt mountain ridges and beamed upon the plain, flooding it with its dazzling brilliance. And the mists now soared triumphantly in a glorious ring, broke up in the west and, fluttering, drifted off into the heights above. Makar thought that he heard a marvelous song. It was the very hymn with which the earth greeted the rising sun every day. Only Makar had not paid attention to it before, and this was the first time in all his life that he realized how beautiful the song was. He stood still listening to it, and refused to go any farther. He could stand there forever listening to it”
“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.”
“How great would be the disgrace to such a borough as that of Westminster if it should find that it had been taken in by a false spirit of speculation and that it had surrendered itself to gambling when it had thought to do honour to honest commerce.”
“sabed que desde hace más de setenta lunas hay en este imperio dos partidos contrarios, conocidos por los nombres de Tramecksan y Slamecksan, a causa de los tacones altos y bajos de su calzado,”
“In his Petersburg world all people were divided into utterly opposed classes. One, the lower class, vulgar, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people, who believe that one husband ought to live with the one wife whom he has lawfully married; that a girl should be innocent, a woman modest, and a man manly, self-controlled, and strong; that one ought to bring up one's children, earn one's bread, and pay one's debts; and various similar absurdities. This was the class of old-fashioned and ridiculous people.”
“But her own life was as cold as an attic with a north-facing window, and boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of”
“Com certa gent que ja no pot suportar més una determinada dosi de música, s'ensopia ple d'indiferència davant l'enrenou d'un amor del qual ja no distingia les delicadeses.”
topics: desenamorament
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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.