Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“He (Levin) was not the least bit interested in what he said himself, still less in what they said, and desired only one thing - that they and everyone should be nice and agreeable.”
“كثيراً ما أظن الرجال لا يفهمون ما يتصل بالشرف، مع أنهم لا يفتأون يتحدثون عنه ويتشدقون به!”
topics: آنا-كارنينا
“- Aţi fost îndrăgostit? întrebă ea pe Iaşvin. - Oh, Doamne, Dumnezeule! De câte ori! Dar înţelegeţi, poţi să te aşezi la masa de joc în aşa fel încât să te poţi ridica totdeauna când va veni ora întâlnirii, şi eu pot să mă gândesc la dragoste, dar în aşa fel încât să nu întârzii la ceasul jocului. Iată cum aranjez.”
“Ever since, by his beloved brother's deathbed, Levin had first glanced into the questions of life and death in the light of these new convictions, as he called them, which had during the period from his twentieth to his thirty-fourth year imperceptibly replaced his childish and youthful beliefs—he had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was. The physical organization, its decay, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, evolution, were the words which usurped the place of his old belief. These words and the ideas associated with them were very well for intellectual purposes.”
“Si el bien tiene una causa, ya no es bien. Si tiene una consecuencia, en forma de recompensa, tampoco lo es. Por tanto, el bien está fuera de la cadena de causas y efectos”
topics: life-lessons-life-education
“Levin took this occasion to convey to Yegor his thought that the main thing in marriage was love, and that with love one was always happy, because happiness exists only in oneself.”
“there are two women: one insists only on her rights, and these rights are your love, which you cannot give her; and the other sacrifices everything for you and demands nothing.”
“Fiecăruia i se pare că viața lui e cea adevărată, iar viața pe care o duce prietenul său este deșartă.”
topics: anna-karenina
“momentary infatuation, …’ he said, and was going on; but at those words her lips tightened again as if with pain, and again the muscle in her right cheek began to twitch. ‘Go away—go away from here!’ she cried in a still shriller voice, ‘and don’t talk to me of your infatuations and all those horrors!”
“And they could not believe it, because they could not imagine the full scope of what they enjoyed and therefore could not imagine that they were destroying the very thing they lived by.”
“E non appena queste parole furono dette, lui e lei capirono che tutto era finito, che quello che si doveva dire non si sarebbe detto, e la loro agitazione, che prima di questo aveva raggiunto l'acme, cominciò a placarsi.”
“One fact he had found out since these questions had engrossed his mind, was that he had been quite wrong in supposing from the recollections of the circle of his young days at college, that religion had outlived its day, and that it was now practically non-existent. All the people nearest to him who were good in their lives were believers.”
“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
“No, I always go alone and nothing ever happens to me,' she (Varenka) said, taking her hat. And, kissing Kitty once more and never saying what was important, at a brisk pace, with the music under her arm, she vanished into the semi-darkness of the summer night, taking with her the secret of what was important and what gave her that enviable tranquillity and dignity.”
“but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!’ The”
“Он как будто чувствовал, что ему надо влюбиться в одну из сестер, только не мог разобрать, в какую именно.”
“Energy is based on love; and where is one to get the love? One can’t order it! I’ve become fond of this girl, you see, without knowing why.”
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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.