749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.