You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention – and then you will overcome everything. You will put to shame all your pride and your demon! You will win, you will attain freedom...

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Deep About Life Meaning Live Life Fulfillment Existentialism

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sad About Life Loneliness

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Human Nature Sad About Life Depression

There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people’s sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 Dostoyevsky

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 Dostoyevsky

Be the sun and all will see you.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lying is a delightful thing for it leads to the truth.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was ’sublime and beautiful,’the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Depressing Sad Suffering
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