Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“وهو يتحاشى النظر إليها، كما نتحاشى الشمس؛ لكنه كان يراها دون أن ينظر إليها، كما نرى الشمس.”

“Deprived of his interlocutor,”

“Not living for his own wants, but for God? For what God? And could one say anything more senseless than what he said? He said that one must not live for one's own wants, that is, that one must not live for what we understand, what we are attracted by, what we desire, but must live for something incomprehensible, for God, whom no one can understand nor even define.”

“At each flash of lightning not only the Milky Way but the bright stars also disappeared, but as soon as the lightning died out they reappeared in the same places, as if thrown by some unerring hand.”

“has been argued with some justification that it is Anna’s growing sense of bleak isolation that is the essence of her tragedy. There”

“Kitty did in fact conceal her new views and feelings from her mother. She concealed them not because she did not respect or did not love her mother, but simply because she was her mother. She would have revealed them to anyone sooner than to her mother.”

“Per Lévin, come persona miscredente e nello stesso tempo rispettosa delle credenze delle altre persone, la presenza e la partecipazione a qualsiasi rito chiesastico era molto penosa. Adesso, in quello stato d'animo sensibile a tutto e raddolcito in cui egli era, questa necessità di fingere non soltanto era penosa per lui, ma gli sembrò affatto impossibile. Adesso, nel suo stato di gloria, di fioritura, avrebbe dovuto o mentire o commettere sacrilegio. Non si sentiva in grado di fare né una cosa, né l'altra. [...] Assistendo alla prima messa, Lévin si sforzò di rinfrescare in sé i ricordi giovanili di quel forte sentimento religioso che egli aveva provato dai sedici ai diciassette anni; ma si convinse immediatamente che questo gli era affatto impossibile. Si sforzò di considerare tutto ciò come un uso vuoto che non avesse senso, simile all'uso di fare le visite; ma sentì che anche questo non lo poteva fare in nessun modo. Lévin riguardo alla religione era nella situazione più indefinita, come del resto la maggior parte dei suoi contemporanei. Credere non poteva, e nello stesso tempo non era fermamente convinto che tutto quello non fosse giusto. E perciò, non potendo credere che fosse significativo quel ch'egli faceva, né guardarvi con indifferenza, come a una vuota formalità, durante tutta quella preparazione alla comunione egli provava un senso di disagio e di vergogna, facendo quello che egli stesso non capiva, e perciò, come gli diceva una voce interna, qualcosa di menzognero e di poco buono.”

“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. "And yet I know it, and we all know it. "What could be a greater miracle than that?”

“you and I have one important advantage over them for certain, in being more difficult to buy. And such men are more needed than ever.”

“Denn ein gerechter Gedanke kann nicht unfruchtbar bleiben.”

“-Bu "halk" sözcüğü çok belirsiz, -dedi Levin. -Bucak katipleri, öğretmenler ve bin köylüden belki biri neyin söz konusu olduğunu biliyordur. Geri kalan seksen milyon, Mihaylıç gibi, bırak iradesini belirtmeyi, hangi konuda iradesini ifade etmesi gerektiği üzerine en küçük bir fikre bile sahip değildir. Bunun halkın iradesi olduğunu söylemeye nasıl hakkımız olabilir?”

“««Io penso», disse Anna, giocando con un guanto che aveva tolto, «io penso... se ci sono tanti ingegni quante teste, allora ci sono anche tanti generi d'amore quanti cuori».»”

“Энэ гудамжнуудыг би огт мэдэхгүй юм байна. Нэг толгод байна, тэгээд дандаа л байшин үргэлжлээд... Байшингуудад дандаа л хүмүүс... хичнээн ч тоогүй олон хүн байдаг юм, тэгээд бүгд л бие биенээ үзэн ядна.”

“Lumea eterioară rezultă din senzații.”

“How is it you don’t smoke? A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. Come, this is life! How splendid it is! This is how I should like to live!”

“How many times had he told himself that her love was happiness; and here she loved him as only a woman can for whom love outweighs all that is good in life - yet he was much further from happiness than when he had followed her from Moscow. Then he had considered himself unhappy, but happiness was ahead of him; while now he felt that the best happiness was already behind. She was not at all as he had seen her in the beginning. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. She had broadened out, and her face, when she spoke of the actress, was distorted by a spiteful expression. He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has plucked, in which he can barely recognize the beauty that had made him pluck and destroy it. And, despite that, he felt that when his love was stronger, he might have torn that love from his heart, had he strongly wished to do so, but now, when it seemed to him, as it did at that moment, that he felt no love for her, he knew that his bond with her could not be broken.”

“She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details,”

“If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“Women are the chief stumbling block in a man's career.”

“it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame someone else, and especially the person nearest of all to him,”