1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of the insulted and injured, oppressed by destiny, and smarting under the sense of its injustice.

Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.

The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.