749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

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

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

We are citizens of eternity.

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

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!

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.