1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

I was always conscious of that weak point of mine, and sometimes very much afraid of it. I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong.

The world says: 'You have needs' -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.