1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Do you know how miserable condition i got into Nastenka? Now i have to celebrate anniversaries of my former feelings.

Miért gyűlöli maga ezt meg ezt ennyire?” És ő akkor, bohócos szégyente­lenségének rohamában, azt felelte: “Megmondom, miért: igaz, hogy semmit se vétett ellenem, de én elkövettem ellene egy alávaló nagy disznóságot, és mihelyt elkövettem, rögtön meg is gyűlöltem.

He's an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

That is a fact and it speaks, it shouts, for itself… but when it comes to inner feelings, that’s quite a different matter, gentlemen.

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.

Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either.

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.