1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end up by eating one another, that's what I prophesy.

Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.

Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly.

Not infrequently it turns out that a writer whom people have long credited with an extraordinary depth of ideas whom they have expected to exert an extraordinary and major influence on the direction of society, displays in the end such a watered down and minuscule version of his basic little idea that no one is even sorry that he’s succeeded in writing himself out.

What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Folks is all queer nowadays,' said the peasant-woman.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

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