1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age, We may add in parenthesis that to preserve all of this is the only means of retaining beauty in old age

It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

Education has nothing whatever to do with moral deterioration; and if one must admit that it develops a resolute spirit among the people, that is far from being a defect.

In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden-the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain

Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be.

Life is good even in sorrow, it’s good to live in the world, no matter how.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!