1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

İşte böyle aptalca,saf fiziksel zayıflıklarla,güneşin bir batışına bağlı zayıflıklarla bir aptallık yapmaya hazırlanıyorsun!

I am an honorable man. A man who has done many vile, despicable things, but an honorable man nevertheless. I don’t know how to explain it to you, but most of the trouble in my life has come precisely from my yearning to be honorable.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

... when God will chastise a man, He first of all deprives him of his reason....

Русские люди вообще широкие люди, Авдотья Романовна, широкие, как их земля, и черезвычайно склонны к фантастическому, к беспорядочному; но беда быть широким без особенной гениальности.

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

لأنّ الإنسان الشاذ ، ليس حتما-ليس دائما- ذلك الذي يسلك سبيل الخصوص والتفرّد ، حتى لقد يتّفق ، خلافاً لهذا ، أن يحمل في ذاته حقيقة عصره ، بينما يكون الناس ، جميع الناس ، من معاصريه ، قد ابتعدوا عن هذه الحقيقة إلى حين ، كأنما دفعتهم عنها ريحٌ هبّت على حين فجأة...

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

But how much love, oh, Lord, how much love I experienced at times in those dreams of mine, in those “escapes into everything beautiful and sublime.” Even though it was fantastic love, even though it was never directed at anything human, there was still so much love that afterward, in reality, I no longer felt any impulse to direct it: that would have been an unnecessary luxury.