1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan.

How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

إنني في حاجة إلى قصاص وعدل، وإلا دمرت نفسي. وهذا القصاص الذي أطالب به، أنا لا أريده في لا نهاية لا يمكن الوصول إليها، وفي أبدية تفوقني، وإنما أنا أريد أن أراه على هذه الأرض، أن أراه بعيني.

No, I'd better sit on to the end,' I went on thinking; 'you would be pleased, my friends, if I went away. Nothing will induce me to go. I'll go on sitting here and drinking to the end, on purpose, as a sign that I don't think you of the slightest consequence.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now !I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.