749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

With love one can live even without happiness.

Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.