More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
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.
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.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
