749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll...

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.