1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

In short, one may say anything about the history of the world – anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can’t say is that it’s rational. The very word sticks in one’s throat.

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Being in love doesn’t mean loving.

Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced, in fact, that everything is disorderly, damnable, and perhaps devil-ridden chaos, if I were struck by every horror of man’s disillusionment – still I should want to live and, having once tried of the cup, I would not turn from it until I have drained it!

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

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

The soul is healed by being with children.