1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

حتى الأحلام يجب عليها أن تقاوم للبقاء على قيد الحياة.

La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia

Soy un observador, un extraño, y nada más. No soy responsable de nada de lo que pase. ¡Eso es! Así será de ahora en adelante.

A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.

I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't...

No, those people are made differently; the true master, to whom all is permitted, sacks Toulon, makes a slaughterhouse of Paris, forgets an army in Egypt, expends half a million men in a Moscow campaign, and gets off with a pun in Vilno; and when he dies they set up monuments to him—and thus everything is permitted.

Quanto più forte era in me la coscienza del bene e di tutto ciò ch'è "bello e sublime", con tanto più entusiasmo mi lasciavo sprofondare nel mio fango fino a impantanarmici completamente.

Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.

both touching and somehow repulsive.