749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.