1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Which is better a cheap happiness or lofty suffering? Tell me then, which is better?

لقد كنت بإختصار، أصل أنا نفسي إلى حد التقزز من أحلام يقظتي

However what can a decent, respectable man talk about with the greatest pleasure? Answer:himself.Well, so I too will talk about myself.

This pleasure came precisely from being too clearly aware of your own degradation; from the feeling of having gone to the uttermost limits; that it is was vile, but it could not have been otherwise; that you could not escape, you could never make yourself into a different person

The pleasure came precisely from being too clearly aware of your own degradation; from the feeling of having gone to the uttermost limits; that it is was vile, but it could not have been otherwise; that you could not escape, you could never make yourself into a different person

I invented a life, so that I should at any rate live.

hate, or love, anything rather than do nothing.

I could have forgiven him for striking me, but I couldn't forgive that moving me from place to place without even seeing me.

I say, let the world perish, if I can always drink my tea.