749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person