3 Quotes by Fydor Dostoyevsky

But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was what attracted them.

But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.

So it is that we are unhappy we sense more acutely the unhappiness of others; rather than dispersing, the emotion becomes focused...