1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That’s the goal for everyone.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. if I, a sinner, even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your sins but the sins of others.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

As a Russian proverb has it, ‘Catch several hares and you won’t catch one.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another’s sin. There is no isolated sin.