Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

About Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works are marked by a preoccupation with Christianity, explored through the prism of the individual confronted with life's hardships and beauty.
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You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing wh...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One who does not believe in God will not believe in God's people. He who believes in God's people will see His Holiness too, even though he had not believed in it till then.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was what attracted them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pues nada ha sido nunca para un hombre o una sociedad humana más insoportable que la libertad.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Without God all things are permitted.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are all happy if we but knew it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in h...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than any other good, and for the sake of which man is prepa...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He's an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nuk shquhej për zgjuarsi, por në mësime ishte i pari.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And no one, no one should know what passes between husband and wife if they love one another. And whatever quarrels there may be between them they ought not to call in their own mother to judge between them and tell tales of one another. They are the...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Truth with love is a lie

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Author Bio

  • NameFyodor Dostoyevsky
  • DescriptionRussian 19th century author
  • AliasesDostoyevsky
  • BornNovember 11, 1821
  • DiedFebruary 9, 1881
  • CountryRussian Empire
  • ProfessionTranslator; Philosopher; Poet; Novelist; Essayist; Short Story Writer; Journalist; Writer
  • WorksNotes From Underground; Crime And Punishment; The Idiot; Demons; The Brothers Karamazov; The House Of The Dead; The Gambler