Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

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.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.