149+ The best sayings of Fyodor Dostoevsky

    149+ The best sayings of Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, is a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher. Fyodor Dostoevsky's deeply inspirational quotes will challenge the way you think and help guide you through any life experience.

 

 

A man who lies to himself and believes his own lies will become unable to recognize the truth, whether in himself or in anyone else, and he will eventually lose his sanity. respect for yourself and others. When he no longer respects anyone, he can no longer love, and, to divert himself, there is no more love in that person, he submits to his impulses, enjoying various forms of pleasure. lowest, and eventually behave like an animal. . And it all comes down to lying - lying to others and to yourself. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Killing someone for murder is a punishment unmatched by the crime itself. Murder by judgment is much more terrible than murder by brigands. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Nature doesn't ask your permission, it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You are obligated to accept it as it is and therefore all its outcomes. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Suffering is part of deep wisdom and a receptive heart. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Don't forget to pray. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, this will give you new courage, and you will understand that prayer is a teaching. sex. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

If everything on earth makes sense, nothing will happen. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

But what is the year, what is the month! he will scream. Why count the days, when even one day is enough for people to know all happiness. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Be the sun and all will see you. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I believe that there is no one more profound, more loving, more sympathetic, and more perfect than Jesus. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Bad people are found everywhere, but even among the worst there can be something good. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it and atone not only for your sins but also for others. Go, and don't be afraid. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

However, I don't understand that she is deliberately hiding her feelings with sarcasm words that are often the last resort of people with timid and pure hearts, whose souls have been grossly invaded. bold and brazen and who, until the last moment, refuses. for being proud and afraid to express his feelings to you. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Such strength! Adelaida cried in unison, looking longingly at the portrait on her sister's shoulder. Where? What strength? Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. Such beauty has power, Adelaida said hotly. You can turn the world upside down with such beauty. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Hell is the inability to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Life is what matters, solitary life - the constant, eternal process of discovering life - not discovering itself. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Just to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Indeed, she looks much younger than her years, which is almost always the case with women who retain their serenity, sensitivity, and pure sincerity in their hearts into old age. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Life is heaven, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

People are sometimes extraordinary, passionate, love to the point of pain. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

But how can you live and not have a story to tell? - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Love in action is a harsh and scary thing compared to love in a dream. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Life has replaced logic. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Right or wrong, it's fun to break something every once in a while. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I swear to you that over-consciousness is a disease - an absolute disease, to be exact. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

A man can be known by his laughter, and if you like a man's laughter before you know anything about him, you can say with confidence that he is a man. good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I do not bow to you, I bow to all human sufferings. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

In sinning, each person sins against all, and each has at least a portion of the other's guilt. There is no isolated sin. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The best way to prevent a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he is in prison. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Bathe him with every blessing, drown him in the sea of ​​happiness, give him economic prosperity so that he can do nothing but sleep, eat cake, and get busy with the continuation of species, and even then, with his absolute best ingenuity, the man will play you some nasty trick. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Because I am a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I will plunge straight into it, go down and tiptoe, and I am even pleased that I am falling into such a humiliating position, and for me, I see it's so beautiful. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

A cause not destroyed by a few mistakes. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I really can't imagine a truly amazing person without being like that. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Let us be servants to become leaders. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Oh, I have plenty of time, my time is all my own. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Civilization has only developed man's capacity for more kinds of sensations, and… absolutely nothing else. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Only one thing scares me: not being worthy of my sufferings. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Love animals, love plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will feel the divine mystery in everything. Once you become aware of it, you will begin to understand it better every day. And in the end you will love the whole world with an all-encompassing love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Love life more than its meaning? - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Every member of society watches the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

People sometimes talk about the cruelty of man to man, but that is extremely unfair and insulting to the beast, no animal can be as cruel as man, artistically, cruelly. in such an artistic way. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

One can tell a child anything, anything. I am often struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They shouldn't hide them too much. Even small children understand that their parents are hiding from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children have the ability to give advice on the most important matters. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the pain, the closer God is! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I always thought I was smarter than everyone around me and sometimes, believe me, I feel ashamed about it. At least, all my life, I've looked away and never been able to look people in the eye. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Starting with unlimited freedom ends with unlimited despotism. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are often far more complex and varied than we are inclined to explain later and are rarely clearly expressed. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

A society should be judged not by the way it treats its outstanding citizens but by the way it treats its criminals. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I say what you dare not think - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time wasted on useless things, mistakes, laziness, inability to live , how grateful I am for it, how many times I have sinned with my heart and soul- then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternal happiness. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is like divine love, and the pinnacle of love on earth. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I have no self-respect. But can a man with a sharp mind respect himself? - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

In my opinion, the wisest person is the man who considers himself a fool at least once a month. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I believe the best definition of man is ingratitude. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and magic, though he can be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Indeed, there is nothing more annoying than, for example, being rich, well-married, handsome, quite intelligent, and even kind, but having no talent, no special faculty, not even have specificity. an idea of ​​his own, just like everyone else's. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Humans are so predisposed to systems and abstract inferences that they are willing to deliberately distort facts, willingly denying sensory evidence just to justify their logic. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There are times when I hate everyone I meet, innocent or guilty, and see them as thieves taking my life with impunity. Unhappiness is unbearable especially when you yourself become so unjust, cruel, vile that you realize, you even blame yourself - but you can't help it. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

He is one of a multitude and variety of idiots, half-cartoon abortionists, conceited, half-educated people who attach themselves to the best ideas in fashion just to smear. smear it and caricature every purpose they serve, no matter how sincere. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Students are a ruthless race, they are personally angels, but together, especially in school, they are often callous. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

It is not miracles that create belief, but belief that creates miracles. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

You see, gentlemen, reason is a wonderful thing, no doubt, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of human nature, while The will is the expression of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life. includes reason and all impulses. And although our lives are often, in its manifestation, worthless, but it is life and not simply drawing square roots. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

To understand widely and feel deeply, you need pain and suffering. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I don't need money, or better yet, it's not money I need, not even power I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: receive Solitary and calm consciousness of strength! It is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world is fighting for! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

According to the realist, belief is not born of miracles, but miracles of belief. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is great! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Sarcasm: the last refuge of the humble and pure of heart when the privacy of their souls is brutally and maliciously violated. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in achievements. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Learning to love is hard and we have to pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and long apprenticeship, for it is not only in a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

One must love life before loving its meaning… yes, and when love of life is gone, no meaning can comfort us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

As long as man remains free, he strives relentlessly and painfully to the point of finding someone to worship. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Gentlemen, let's assume that man isn't stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to say, from one thing alone, that, if man is stupid, who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful. weird! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe the best definition of a man is ungrateful. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

To achieve perfection, one must first start with not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Loving someone is different from loving another person. You can hate someone you're in love with. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I am wrong! You can never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and most likely a hundred and fourteen. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

If you love everything, you will feel the sacred mystery of everything. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

You cannot imagine the sadness and anger that take over a person's whole soul when a great idea, and a great idea, which has long been revered and revered, is rejected by some critics. wood picked up and hauled out onto the street, to fools like themselves, and one comes across it all of a sudden in a market flying field, unrecognizable, filthy, skewed, absurdly presented, out of proportion , not in harmony, a toy for stupid children. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

A man is not an example for a woman. That's a different thing. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Inventors and geniuses are almost always seen as fools at the beginning of their careers, and very often at the end of their careers. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Don't rush straight into life, don't consider, don't be afraid - the flood will bring you to shore and keep you safe on your feet. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I firmly believe that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness is a disease. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I could be wrong but it seems to me that a man can be judged by the tone of his voice, and if meeting you for the first time sounds like the laughter of someone you don't know at all, you can can say with assurance that he is good. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I tell you, the old doctors who treated the disease are all gone, now there are only experts, advertising loudly in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they will send you to Paris: there is a European specialist there, he treats the nose. You come to Paris, he examines your nose: I can only treat your right nostril, he said, I don't treat the left nostril, that's not my specialty, but after I come Vienna, have a separate specialist there will complete. Treat your left nostril. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Luxury is easy to get but hard to give up. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

And, really, at this point, I'm going to ask myself an aimless question: which is better - cheap happiness or sublime suffering? Well, which one is better? - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Drive nature out the door and it will fly into the window. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Man likes to count his troubles, but he doesn't count his joys. If he counted them as he ought to, he would find that each lot had enough happiness for it. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Love all of God's creation, whole and grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love animals, love plants, love each individual thing. If you love each thing, you will realize the mystery of God in all, and once you become aware of this, you will gradually grow each day to a fuller understanding of it: for until you finally love the whole world with a love that is then all-encompassing and universal. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

No ideas, no reality, can't be vulgarized and ridiculously presented. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I am a fool with a heart but no brain, and you are a fool with a brain but without a heart and we are both unhappy and we both suffer. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a broad mind and a deep heart. I think that really great men must have great sadness on earth. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Many misfortunes have come to the world because of bewilderment and unspeakable things. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

To love is to suffer and there can be no other love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There is only one way to be saved, and that is to hold yourself accountable for all the sins of mankind. As soon as you hold yourself accountable with all sincerity to everything and to everyone, you will immediately see that this is indeed the case, and that you are, in fact, at fault to everyone and to everyone. everything. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The mystery of human existence lies not only in surviving, but also in finding something to live on. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Overthinking is a disease. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

People with new ideas, those who are most likely to say something new, are extremely few in number, very few in fact. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The more I love humans in general, the more I love humans in particular. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

It's amazing what a ray of sunshine can do to a man! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There are things a man is afraid to say to himself, and every decent man has some of those things stashed in his mind. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially lies to yourself. Watch out for your own lie and check it for hours and minutes. And avoid belittling both others and yourself: what looks bad to you in yourself will be purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, even though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be afraid of your weakness in gaining love, and don't even be afraid of your own bad deeds. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The death of a child is the biggest reason to doubt the existence of God. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

It is said that drowned men cling to straws. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Power is only given to those who dare to humble themselves and take it. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

In fact, it seems that the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated in the first half. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and innocent, while wit shows and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupid is honest and sincere. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Wealth is the number of things one can do without. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

When reason fails, the devil helps! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

If you can ask the question, 'Am I responsible or not for my behavior?' Then you must. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

If you want to glimpse inside the human soul and get to know a man… just watch him smile. If he smiles well, he is a good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There is so much more inside than words can describe. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Remember, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself: Lord, have mercy on all who appear before You today. In every hour and every moment, thousands of people give up their lives on this earth, and their souls appear before the Lord. And how many of them passed away lonely, unidentified, sad, desperate without anyone mourning them or even knowing if they were alive or not! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Man is a malleable animal, a creature used to everything! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

My soul bleeds and the steady stream of blood, silently, slowly swallows me up. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

A happy man is to fulfill the purpose of existence - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

With love, one can live even without happiness. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Souls are healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

At some point, one feels perplexed, especially in the face of human sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you solve that problem once and for all, you can subdue the world. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man lies to himself and listens to his own lies to the extent that he cannot distinguish what is the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself. self and others. And without respect, he stops loving. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I'm drunk but tell the truth. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The world says: You have needs - satisfy them. You have as many rights as the rich and powerful. Don't hesitate to really meet your needs, expand your needs and ask for more. This is the world doctrine of today. And they believe this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Everyone seems to be divided into 'extraordinary' and 'extraordinary'. Ordinary people have to live a life of strict compliance and have no right to break the law because they are ordinary people, while extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and break the law. in any way just because they are extraordinary people . - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

You can be sincere and still be stupid. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

But I've always liked the side streets, the dark alleyways behind the main road - where one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metals in the dirt. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

If you want to surpass the world, surpass yourself. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I'll make any more mockery than pretending that I'm satisfied when I'm hungry. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Friend, the truth is always infallible, you know? To make the truth more plausible, it is necessary to mix a little falsehood with it. People have always done that. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

And if there is love, you can also do it without happiness. Even with sorrow, life is still sweet. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I think the devil does not exist, but man created him, he created him in his own image and likeness. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Jealous people are the most forgiving, and all women know that. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

If I seem happy with you. . . You can never say anything could please me more. For man was made to be happy, and anyone who is perfectly happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing the will of God on earth.' All righteous, All saints, all holy martyrs rejoice. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Crime comes with illness! - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Maybe I really consider myself a smart man because in all my life I have never been able to start or finish anything. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There is nothing more difficult in this world than telling the truth, nothing easier than flattery. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There are chance encounters with strangers that delight us from the very first moment, before a word is uttered. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

The secret of man is not only to live, but to have something to live for. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Yes, that's right… love should precede logic… Only then will people understand the meaning of life. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There is nothing easier than getting started and nothing more difficult than developing an idea. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Reason is the slave of passion. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

From a hundred rabbits, you cannot make a horse. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Taking the next step is what people fear the most. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

If one wants to crush and completely destroy a man, to repay him with the most terrible punishment, all one has to do is make him do absolutely useless work. and meaning. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

May you forever be blessed for the moment of happiness and happiness that you have given to another lonely and grateful heart. Is such a moment not enough for one's whole life? - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

I don't wish you much happiness - it will upset you, nor do I want you to get in trouble, but in everyone's philosophy I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try by somehow so as not to get too bored, this futile wish that I'm adding my own. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

There is no object on earth that cannot be seen from the cosmic point of view. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

You'll get burned and you'll burn out, you'll heal and come back. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

Thank you for reading, have a nice day!