Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
topics: angling
“Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.”
“وإني لأعلم الآن يا صونيا أنه من كان قوي النفس والعقل, فذلك هو سيدهم, ذلك هو مولاهم! من كان يملك جرأة كبيرة, فذلك هو الذي له الغلبة عليهم! من كان يبصق على الأشياء أكثر من غيره, فذلك هو عندهم المشرِّع! من كان يتمتع بأكبر جسارة, فذلك هو الذي يهبون له جميع الحقوق! هذا ما كان من قديم الزمن, وهذا ما سيبقى إلى آخر الدهر! الأعمى وحده لا يبصر هذه الحقيقة!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
topics: raskolnikov
“«Capita d'incontrare persone, anche a noi totalmente sconosciute, che ci cominciano ad interessare fin dal primo sguardo, per così dire di colpo, prima che abbiano detto una parola»”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Delitto e castigo
“هكذا حال النفوس الرومانسية دائماً , تظل حتى آخر لحظة تزين الناس بريش الطاووس , تظل حتى آخر لحظة تفترض الخير لا الشر, و رغم تصورها وجود الشر فإنها لا يمكنها ان تعترف بذلك لنفسها بأي حال من الأحوال , ان تصور هذا وحده يصدمها و يهزها هزاَ قوياً. فهي بيدها تحجب وجهها حتى لا ترى الحقيقة, إلى ان يأتي الانسانالذي زينته بريش ملون من خيالها فيصفع وجهها و يدمي أنفها بيدع نفسها !”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
topics: true-story
“But I tell you what it is; an honest and sensitive man is open; and a business man 'listens and goes on eating' you up.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“إن ما يخافه البشر أكثر ما يخافون هو أن يتقدموا خطوة إلى أمام.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
topics: c
“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.”
topics: philosophy
“ماذا يفيده وماذا يجديه أن يستمر في الصراع والكفاح؟ أيحيا من أجل أن يوجد؟ ألا انه كان طوال حياته مستعدا لأن يضحي بوجوده ألف مرة في سبيل فكرة، في سبيل أمل، بل وفي سبيل تحقيق نزوة! إن الوجود في حد ذاته لم يكن كافيا له في يوم من الأيام وإنما هو كان يطمع دائما في أكثر من ذلك! ولعل اعنف رغباته كان وحده السبب في انه ظن نفسه انسانا يجوز له مالا يجوز لغيره !”
“A volte l'uomo è straordinariamente, appassionatamente innamorato della sofferenza.”
topics: russian
“What’s the most offensive is not their lying — one can always forgive lying — lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth — what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying. . .”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?”
“Where is it.. where is it I have read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him. If he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live. Life, whatever it may be, how true it is.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
“They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.”
“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”
“To consider freedom as directly dependent on the number of man's requirements and the extent of their immediate satisfaction shows a twisted understanding of human nature, for such an interpretation only breeds in men a multitude of senseless, stupid desires and habits and endless preposterous inventions...so it is not surprising that, instead of freedom, they lapse into slavery, that, instead of promoting unity and brotherhood, they encourage division and isolation...”
“And before you know it, the object disappears, arguments evaporate; no culprit is discovered, the offense ceases to be an offense and becomes a matter of fate, like the toothache which cannot be blamed on anyone, and the only thing that's left is, once again, to bang the wall as hard as you can. ”
“I ain’t everybody, and I can’t stand it. It’s awful to be tied up so. And grub comes too easy – I don’t take no interest in vittles, that way. […] Looky-here, Tom, being rich ain’t what it’s cracked out to be. It’s just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time. […] now you just take my sheer of it along with your’n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes – not many times, becuz I don’t give a dern for a thing ‘thout it’s tollable hard to git. […] No, Tom, I won’t be rich, and I won’t live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I’ll stick to ‘em, too.”
“TOM!" No answer. "TOM!" No answer. "What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!" No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service-- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.”
topics: humor
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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.