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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
–Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
–Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.’
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
–Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If there is no God, everything is permitted.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
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