29 Quotes About Notes-from-underground

I am to blame because, first of all, I am cleverer than anybody else around me.

Even then I already carried the underground in my soul.

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, bit it could not have been otherwise; that you could not escape, you could never make yourself into a different person

But all these are golden daydreams.

Do you ask why I tortured and tormented myself? The answer is that it was too boring to sit and do nothing, and so I indulged my fancy.

As for my own personal opinion. I find it somehow unseemly to love only well-being. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, smashing things is also sometimes very pleasant. I am not standing up for suffering, or for well-being either. I am standing up for my own caprices and for having them guaranteed when necessary.

I am a sick man....I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my liver.

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

Compared to them I was a fly, a nasty obscene fly – cleverer, better educated, nobler than any of them, that goes without saying – but a fly, always getting out of everybody's way