749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

In thousands of agonies, I exist. I'm tormented on the rack, but I exist!Though I sit alone in a pillar, I exist!I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic.

And if you weren’t a fool, a common fool, a perfect fool, if you were an originalinstead of a translation … you see, Rodya, I recognise you’re a clever fellow, but you’re a fool!

Without God all things are permitted.