1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.

Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem.

Dosta je bilo! - izusti odlučno i svečano. - Dalje od mene, utvare, izmišljene strepnje, priviđenja!... Ima još života! Zar nisam sad maloprije živio? Nije mi se još život ugasio s onom babuskarom! Bog da joj duši dao lako i... i dosta je bilo, bakice, vrijeme da se smirite! Sad je zavladalo kraljevstvo razuma i svijetla i... i volje, i snage... i da vidimo sada! Da se ogledamo! - dometne pakosno, kao da se obraća nekoj mračnoj sili i izaziva je.

Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings as made us, too,...perhaps better than we actually are.

I shall humble myself before people and whimper at every word that I am a criminal? Yes, that's it, that's it, that's what they are sending me there for, that's what they want. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all!

We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.

In every man's memory there are things he won't reveal to others, except, perhaps, to his friends. And there are things he won't reveal even to friends, only, perhaps, to himself, and there, too, in secret. And finally, there are things he is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of them. In fact, the more decent the man, the more of them he has stored up.

Možda je tada samo po snazi svojih želja i ocijenio sebe kao čovjeka kome je dozvoljeno više nego drugima.