Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and philosopher, renowned for his profound psychological insight and exploration of the human soul. His major works, such as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov," have had a lasting impact on world literature. He remains one of the most influential writers in literary history. Here are 209 of his quotes:

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The soul is healed by being with children. View quote
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. View quote
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To love someone means to see him as God intended him. View quote
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that. View quote
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Beauty would save the world. View quote
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. View quote
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. View quote
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. View quote
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But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate. View quote
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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. View quote
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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. View quote
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Love life more than the meaning of it? View quote
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If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth. View quote
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. View quote
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. View quote
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man! View quote
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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. View quote
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If there is no God, everything is permitted. View quote
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Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. View quote
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I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle, my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger. View quote
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I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth, for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes, have seen it in all its glory . View quote
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. View quote
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Image
Occupation: Russian Novelist
Born: November 11, 1821
Died: January 28, 1881
Quotes count: 209
Wikipedia: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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