1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!

What if I were not to die! What if life were given back to me-what infinity! And it would all be mine! Then I'd turn each minute into a whole age, I'd lose nothing, I'd reckon up every minute separately, I'd let nothing be wasted! He said that in the end this thought turned into such anger in him that he wished they would hurry up and shoot him

You began with a lie, what began with a lie was bound to also end with a lie. That is a law of nature.

Hem bilindiği gibi, tembellik bütün kusurların anasıdır.

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

And what if I am wrong,' he cried suddenly after a moment's thought. 'What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind—then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

A thief steals and knows he is a scoundrel, but I've heard of a gentleman who broke open the mail. Who knows, very likely he thought he was doing a gentlemanly thing!

Of course, in that case many of the benefactors of mankind who snatched power for themselves instead of inheriting it ought to have been punished at their first steps. But these men succeeded and so they were right, and I didn't, and so I had not right to have taken that step.