1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I was created with consciousness, and I was conscious of this Nature: what right did she have to produce me, a conscious being, without my willing it?...

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!

Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is their salvation and their joy.

What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould cast of the world and man and human nature, everything is there, and a law for everything for all the ages. And what mysteries are solved and revealed

Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.